James dragged himself away from the technological delights of Singapore last Sunday and we took a short 6 hour bus ride back to Kuala Lumpur – what a great city. It’s bigger and grubbier than Singapore, efficient but not in a scary way, scattered with mosques, towering high-rises, temples, food halls, shrines, markets and museums, [...]

Hello…sorry about the brief radio silence, we’ve been electricity-shy for a week or two.
We left Phi Phi about 10 days ago and spent one night in Patong, a beach resort in Phuket which seems to be the spring retreat for all the fat, drunk European oafs who haunt the Canary Islands during summer. Quite frankly [...]