G’day Bruce! We’ve arrived in Australia! Squiffy’s favourite country and my biggest waypoint since our world tour began! Hoorah! We’re in Perth, Western Australia and I’m in the mood to share some eyebrow-raising factoids about the place with you. Western Australia (WA), one of Australia’s eight states is also easily the largest, covering a third […]

At time of writing, we’re over seventeen months into our travels and, having cooled-off from India in Singapore and Malaysia, are just about ready to undertake another big overground journey. This time, we’re planning to buy a car — hopefully a big one too. Maybe even a Toyota Land Cruiser like the one in which […]

We’ve now booked our flight to Australia, leaving from Singapore in a couple of days, so we made our way back from Kuala Lumpur to my saviour city. Carefully balancing our wallets, we enjoyed a cable car ride between Mount Faber and Sentosa Island, which is a bit wacky because it actually tunnels through a […]

Aside from all the Asian people busying about, sometimes it’s sometimes easy to forget that you’re in a far away land with different customs, cultures and cuisine. That is, until you open a drinks menu…

Asia was always going to hold some weird experiences for us, by I didn’t expect that they were going to involve fish and toes. After our visit to the KL Menara Tower, as part of a promotion we were both given a voucher for a reduced price treatment at the local health spa. Oh goody […]

After spending a lovely four days in the very Dutch tourist town of Melaka we jumped on a bus to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city. Still buzzing from Singapore, I was hopeful that K.L. wouldn’t be too much of a let down — surely it couldn’t be as good as Singapore, could it? It blooming […]

Singapore was definitely an improvement on India. However, it was still a busy city and I was looking forward to somewhere with a more relaxing pace of life. A couple of hours on a bus over the Singapore-Malaysia border, we found the perfect place to chill out. Melaka was formerly ruled by the Portuguese, Dutch […]