Two weeks in and we have made it from Bangkok to Singapore in one piece! I have escaped with minimal sunburn (on one foot...), mastered the art of using squat toilets, and realised I do still have a stomach of a marine and can handle Asian street food!

The flights from London to Asia went well, but Simon died A LOT in Mumbai Airport... Pleople were giving me funny looks because he was passed out in the middle of the floor! I had to reassure a few that he was just sleeping and wasn't actually needing CPR!

Bangkok was insane, but Tuk Tuk riding is a lot of fun once you accept the lack of control and the fearlessness of the drivers!! We visited the Grand Palace (after hiring very sexy skirts and trousers to cover our legs!) which is really beautiful, everything is either gold or mosaic! I stacked it down some steps... Apparently marbel and flip-flops aren't a good combination! We took another Tuk Tuk to Koh San Road, stocked up on suncream and loo rolls, and hit a bar playing tunes and football! We got chatting to two Scott from Canada and Norbert from Switzerland!

The sleeper train from Bangkok to Krabi was a lot of fun, there was a bar in one of the carrages, and we kept the Chang flowing! We had a really good nights sleep considering the noise... Maybe something to do with the beer!

I loved Krabi, the beaches are awsome, we hit them straight away, getting a long boat to West Railey. I went swimming in the sea with Anne. Shelah and Babs, girls on our tour! We drank beer in coozies, ate Thai curries and watched chinese lanters and fireworks in the evening.

In the morning I left Simon and went on a boat trip round some of the islands on the coast. The speed boat was a lot of fun because it was so bumpy and we were all flying everywhere! We went to Bamboo Island and explored the beaches there. The sand was white and the sea bright turqoise, exactly how you would imagine a paradise island!! We went to Phi Phi Lay next, saw the Viking Cave and I lost my snorkling virginity in Maya Bay - Where "The Beach" was filmed. There were a lot of boats here, but it was still insanely beautiful! Next was Phi Phi Don, the largest of the islands where we were. The streets were bustling, there was so much to do! In the afternoon we snorkled in Nui Bay, there were millions of fish here, in so many different colours! I jumped off the front of the boat with a piece of watermelon, and the fish went crazy! They were swarming infron of my face munching on the fruit! It was so cool!

We then went into Malaysia. The first town we visited was Langkawi, a beautiful beach resort with palm trees right on the beach, cocktail bars and banana boats! I sunburned one foot through cloud cover (genius sun lotion application I know), and we watched the sun set in the Yellow bar on the beach. In Langkawi there is the most amazing bakery, well worth going there just for the baked goods!!

We caught a ferry from Langkawi to Penang, semi-organised chaos! Bags, bodies and crying babies everywhere!! Me and Si had a balcony in our room here, although it was too hot to have the doors open! We visited Chew Jetty, an old Chinese jetty made completely of wood. Pleoples livingrooms are pretty much part of the street! It was really wierd! The food court here was really cool, Mongolian chicken and fried ice cream was consumed!! We went out in Upper Penang to a bar called slippery senoritas and saw a live band playing some tunes! We went on a tour around Penang so we could get in as many of the sights as we could. We visited Thai and Burmese temples. In the Thai one there is the biggest reclining Buddah in Asia, it was huge, and she had glittery toe nails! The Burmese one had a garden with a wishing well! We went to Keh Lok Si temple then. There were millions of Chinese lanters everywhere because of the New Year celebrations. I made a wish on a wish ribbon for Eternal Happiness for all my family and friends and got a cable car up to the top where there is a huge standing Buddah.

The mini-van ride up to the Cameron Highlands was the scariest ride of my life, drivers literally have no fear on the winding mountain roads!!! On the way I tried Durian, a REALLY smelly fruit, langsat and mangostines. There is no apples and pears up there!! For dinner in the highlands we had a steamboat, a huge pot of broth boiling in the middle of the table, and you chuck in the food you want raw, and wait for it to cook! We has jelly fish, crab, fish balls, cuttle fish along with the regular eggs, noodles chicken and beef! Thew jelly fish tastes like snot! YUM! I took a tour round a rose garden, a tea plantation, a bee and butterfly farm, and a strawberry farm. It is a good job I had a waterproof, it rains a lot in the highlands!! Anorak tourist!!

Kuala Lumpur was amazing... I nearly died on the van there tho... hangover and travelsickness is not a pleaseuable experience, avoid at all costs!!

We went round the city, saw Kasturi Walk, Cental Market, Mederka Square, and the Petronas Towers. The towers are the love of my life!! They are amazing!!! Especially at night!! The Batu caves in KL aren't so much fun however... You have to climb approximately 100000000 steps to get to the top, avoiding monkeys and pigeons, and then you get to the top... and you are in caves. Worst nightmare!! I hate caves!! Then on the way back down, we got attacked my the monkeys! I have never run up stairs in flip flops so fast in all my days!!! TERRIFYING! The adrenaline made our legs all shakey! I dislike rabid monkeys a lot now! We relaxed in the afternoon in a waterpark, with the odd slide ride and wave pool chucked in!

Melaka was our next destination, we visited Jonker street, china town, went and had a traditional tea tasting experience (much to Simons disgust), and hit a bucket bar where obscene amounts of "Anchor Strong" were consumed!

A hungover coach journey and trip through customs left us in Singapore. The nicest city so far!! Marina Bay is amazing, Singapore Slings are way too dinkable, The Marina Bay Sands hotel is off the scale with it's infinity pool on the "roof", the use of pedestrian crossings is a legal neccesity, and the skyline is wicked!! We sneeked into the Marina Bay Hotel, and I got to paddle in the infinity pool! The only downsides here are the expensive beer and the daily monsoon!!