Delhi (Sun 8th - Wed 11th March) Arrived in Delhi after a 6 hour flight from Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific. Time in India is 2.5 hours behind HK and we are now only 5.5 hours ahead of UK time.We were picked up at IRI (Indira Ghandi International) airport by our hotel taxi. Early impressions of India were not promising. The airport itself is a bit shabby but it is not until you get outside the terminal that you realise what a dump the place is. Although you read a...

Hong Kong (Tues 3rd - Sat 7th March) Arrived in HK Tuesday pm after a 70k taxi ride to KL Airport, a 3.5 hour Cathay Pacific flight, an express train to Kowloon and a shuttle bus to our hotel. We have been staying at the Guang Dong hotel in the touristy Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon. The weather this week has been an important factor in our stay in Hong Kong. This is meant to be the best time of year to visit but the weather has been very unseasonable. It h...

Kuala Lumpur (Friday27th Feb - Monday 2nd March) Arrived in KL Friday afternoon after a 7 hour train journey from Singapore. We travelled first class on Malaysian Railways. I hate to think what conditions were like in the other classes. We stayed in the Swiss Garden hotel in the Golden Triangle ! area of the city. We did our usual Sightseeing tour round the city - not one of the better ones as the audio guides did not seem to work too well, we missed some of th...

Singapore (Mon 23rd - Thurs 26th Feb) Arrived at Changi Airport after a short 2 hour fight from Bali on Singapore Airlines. First impressions as you travel into the centre is how clean and tidy, well organised and advanced the place seems to be. When you reach the centre and start travelling around you realise that Singapore is one enormous shopping mall or rather over 200 integrated shopping malls. Some of them are enormous with 4 or 5 floors and some are open ...

Bali (Wed 18th Feb - Sun 22nd Feb) We have spent 5 days of relative luxury in our 4 star Mandira Hotel in the resort of Legian. Arrived in Bali after a 3.5 hr. Jetstar flight from Perth. Bali is a very popular holiday resort for Australians - probably their equivalent of Brits going to Spain. There were plenty of brochures at the airport detailing the wide variety of tours and activities that are available. They were all written by someone who hasn't yet mastere...