Flying from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore takes about one hour and there are around thirty flights a day but by train the journey is a heck of a lot longer, a tad more complicated and kind of three trains a day. From KL Sentral station to JB Sentral station it was an eight hour journey, upon arrival at JB (that is Johor Bahru in southern Malaysia) we had to buy another ticket to get across the causeway to the Singapore Woodlands Checkpoint which was just a five minut...

After the seven hour overnight flight from from London to Muscat (Sunday into Monday) we had a quick dash through the airport to catch the onward flight to Kuala Lumpur (another six and a half hours) which saw us touch down at 8pm on Monday evening at KL International Airport. After a night at a hotel at the airport, where we met up with friends John & Rita who had arrived from Dubai, we headed into Kuala Lumpur on the KLIA Express - a thirty minute trip by train...

With our flight to Kuala Lumpur booked for the Sunday evening we took advantage of a spare Saturday night and travelled to London a day early so we could take in a show and be able to get out to Heathrow without too much bother. Having checked in at the Travelodge opposite King Cross station we wandered back past Platform 9 3/4 (of Harry Potter fame) and visited the Parcel Yard pub within Kings Cross station. This was my first visit to this place and what an inte...

If somewhere looks good in the rain and the place makes you think that it is worth a return visit even if you are clutching an umbrella dodging the puddles then it must be alright. As I was stopping in London over night I thought a cheeky evening trip to Winchester, which took just an hour by train from Waterloo, would make a change to trudging the streets of the 'big smoke'. I am very glad that I made the trip as I would like to explore the city, its historic ...

Norwich is, if honest, a little isolated. There seems to be no quick way to get to the city either by road or rail and the journey just seems far longer than it really should (some of the scenery en-route is not that inspiring either) however when you do get there what a delightful city it is! We were met by our good friends Tim, Georgie and Tom at Norwich station at 11.15 (after leaving Derby at 07.53) to go dragon hunting. There are in total 84 GoGoDragons dot...