Dear All I'm still in Malaysia and having a lovely time. I got more used to Georgetown in Penang and enjoyed people watching and I did some sight seeing. I went around the coast one day to have a look at a beach resort, Batu Firrengi but didn't stay. It's not as nice as where I am now - Langkawi. I also tried lots of local food. One of the things I tried was Laksa, which is a local noodle speciality. I tried it at a hawker food stall place so it was re...

Hello I spent another day in Singapore wondering around Chinatown and through the city. I had some intersting meals out in Little India where I didn't really have any clue what I was ordering but it was all delicious curry and reminded me of Jai Krishner on Stroud Green Road. I tend to get stared at quite a lot, pehaps partly for being western, more so for having red hair and probably even more so for being a woman eating on my own which I don't think is the...

Hello The postcard is a picture of our guide on my 3 day Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks safari type trip. It really did feel like we were a long way from anything. We had to wrestle snakes and crocodiles, outwit killer spiders, kill poisonous toads with our bare hands and spear fish that nibbled on our feet. Not to mention having to catch our own dinner, survive on berrys, leaves and nuts foraged from the forrest. We had to start fires with flint to co...

G'day I am currently in Cairns but flying over to Darwin this afternoon for my last stop in Australia. I fly to Singapore on the 6th March. My last night on Magnetic Island turned out to be a bit of a big one when the blokes in my dorm decided we were having a 14 party. Room 14, 14 people, 14 bags of goon, starting at 1400, with 14 party games and all to be finished within 14 minutes. Well, the first 2 were true. We got told off by the hostel owners and...

Hello Just finished this post card and seem to have lost it which is v annoying. So I'll write it all again. I am on Magnetic Island recovering from a stint of having a bit too good a time up the east coast. I really enjoyed my Whitsundays trip. I read an interview in a magazine just before I went on it, saying that it was an anti climax. For me it wasn't, I loved every second, well, apart from 5 hours - see sea sickness section below! We were on a...