On a plane to KL the following situation arises: Ryan "Look its the moon" Leigh-Anne "No thats the light on the wing tip dear" Ryan "ooooh" Leigh-Anne "Thats why it keeps moving with us!"

Whilst in asia I (LA) have been pointing out to Ryan the various animals we see along our way, such as basking lizards, tiny frogs etc. Ryan trying to get in on the action stopped me on our walk home last night "whats that!? whats that?!" he pointed to something in the dark... "I saw something" .... "oh... its a cockroach" he said as it scurried into the drain. Thanks Ryan. You do show me the best things.

We are now at a place called rai lay in Krabi, Thailand. We know we haven't updated the blog in ages but we're alive and well (apart from the mosquitoes). Right we're off climbing now.

So Leigh-Anne and I have spent two weeks in a place called Railay in the south of Thailand and are now in Malaysia. But more about that later. For now it's time to recap on our recent escapades with the hire car. We hired ourselves the smallest (read: cheapest) car we could find. This was a Nissan March. Which to anyone in Europe is a Nissan Micra. b****in! We picked it up from Chiang Mai airport and after trying and failing to find a clutch pedal we were resi...

We're driving a loop from chiang mai, through pai, mae hong son and mae sariang. The roads are good in Thailand and drivers are very polite but we weren't expecting this many bends in the road. The loop we're driving has become famous for the curves, and so far we have conquered 2087. And some of this bends double back on themselves all the way through the mountains. This means whoevers not driving at the time is probably suffering from motion sickness. We arriv...