So on our second day here, Maureen and I have settled into our own little routines. Maureen likes reading her books in the shade in her lounge chair , and I like laying on my beach towel down on the sand , watching the waves and being warm!!!! I have been using 50 sunscreen to [...]

July 6Have you ever heard of Garra rufa?  Well they’re these little fish that love to gobble up the dead skin off of your body.   And they are the latest body therapy.  This all originated in Turkey and apparently people there submerge their bodies in the streams that these fish live in to feed the [...]

Map PIN!

Borneo! My preconceptions of this place were of primitive jungle, full of headhunters and crocodiles competing to end my trip even earlier. Well… a concrete jungle and a traffic jam were my first impressions. It got better fast though. Kuching is a beautiful riviera town full of great cafes, gardens, bars and friendly locals. The [...]

We caught a bus and made it to our last stop in Malaysia, “Johor Bahru” for 2 nights. Stopped at one museum for a little history and then some shopping and a haircut.

In Penang I feel like a traveller again. Thailand was a holiday within a holiday and after a month, I craved days filled with sightseeing and mornings without hangovers. We’re staying at Banana Guesthouse on Jalan Chulia and it reminds me of South Africa no end. For one, it’s a proper hostel, with a packed [...]

Tea plantations wrap around rolling hills and look like well fitting curdouroy pants worn on christmas day. Rows of lime green tea buds straddle evergreen underbrush, with streams of water running throughout. Bangladeshi workers brave the steep inclines picking the finest tea Malaysia has to offer. Clouds glide atop mountains like white feathers flying in [...]

After meeting up with Kate again, there were some big decisions to be made, and the feeling that we needed to get out of Hue Hin and Thailand as quickly as possible, and head on to Australia, and finally see Pearlie, Meg and Tony (who I’ve never even met!!). but being back on the road [...]

We were the only foreigners on the six-hour coach trip from Kuala Lumpur, heading for the port town of Mersing (so that we could get a ferry to Pulau Tioman the following morning).  Perhaps it was for this reason that we appeared to be the only passengers phased by the attitude and skills of our [...]

The most amazing thing happened on the way to Penang… an easy border crossing! Wait- stop. Think about it. Appreciate it, as I did. This was bloody amazing. Innumerable minibus, bus and ferry transfers worked seamlessly. No one ripped me off. Customs were not a pain in the arse. In fact, I walked around the [...]