Well, bit of a change since I last wrote - Jack's work offered him a job for as long as he wants it, so I ended up not taking the job in Auckland and we moved down to Tauranga. It's so much nicer here anyway. Jack started working on Monday, so he's had the first week in, and I managed to get work and started on Wednesday! I'm Admin Manager for a fashion company called Moochi ( www.moochi.co.nz ) if anyone wants to check it out! We found a flat aswell and are...

We arrived in New Zealand on Saturday, and have been busy job hunting, opening bank account, flat hunting and getting tax numbers to work! It's really cold here - being in 30 degrees heat for 3 months doesn't really prepare you for the cold winters here! We arrived at about 10.30am, and unfortunately were pretty jet lagged! We slept all afternoon and got up at 10pm!!! For a couple of days we were sleeping during the day and up at night, but we've got that all...

So, here we are back again in Kuala Lumpur after 3 brilliant months of travelling! We're flying to NZ on Friday evening, so we've got a couple of days here. We found a roller disco last time, but didn't go, so that's one thing on the agenda! We're both excited about NZ, but sad to be leaving Asia because we've got used to being here so long!

We left Koh Lanta and had one night in Krabi. From there we headed to Railay, which is at the tip of a peninsula of the mainland, but you can only get there by boat. We arrived (soaking wet, it's just a small boat and the sea was a bit rough!) and found an excellent guesthouse for only 200baht again, and it had a lovely swimming pool too. It was quiet here aswell, but not quite as quiet as Koh Lanta. We took a walk around, the beaches there are gorgeous, and ...

We decided to head straight for Koh Lanta from Krabi, as there wasn't much going on there. We took a minibus (which actually had to go on 2 boats aswell) to get there. When we arrived, we arrived in the main backpacker beach, which was completely deserted!! We tried to find acommodation but they were all closed because it was the low season. We found a place a little further along eventually, and had a beach bungalow for only 200baht per night because it was...