..... now then I haven't written this in a long while so I will try to keep it brief.
If you have all been taking a peek at my pics then you will already know what we have been doing the past 3 months. The trip down the east coast has been amazing so much fun, quite sad it is over. So in the past 3 months we have been to..........
CAIRNS - Where it rained for the whole week, nearly anyway. Met Joe, Caz, Ben & Alex in Cairns (Cairns Crew). They were our room mates in Gilligans hostel and turned out to become really good friends of ours who we are hopefully gonna see lots of when we return home. Met Lisa & Kathryn in Cairns which was great as well. We went White Water Rafting on the Tully, which was the best fun ever and I have the scar to prove it (had a slight argument with a big tree branch). Spent a day snorkeling on the great barrier reef & found Nemo. We also had the best night out for Paddy's Day, which turned out to be quite drunken.
MAGNETIC ISLAND - After Cairns we headed to Maggie Island with Kathryn & Lis. Here we went jet Skiing around the top of the Island and we also hired and beach buggy and drove all around the Island. We went walking in the bush and saw a wild Koala which was pretty cool. That's where we said goodbye to Kathryn as the next time we would see her was home sniff sniff!
AIRLIE BEACH - Airlie beach was where we caught our boat to the Whitsundays. We went on the British Defender for a trip around the Whitsundays for a two day two night trip. It was so much fun, the crew were great, the group of folk we had were really nice and I haven't ate so much food in the space of 2 days as I did on that boat. Th weather was lovely although a bit cloudy. Whithaven beach was absolutely beautiful I have never seen such an amazing beach. There were thousands of little crabs migrating from the sand to the water when we got onto Whithaven beach as well, so cool. The British Defender turned into a Party boat at night where there were several litres of goon consumed, fun & games. The Easter Bunny also found us out at sea and we got an Easter egg. Met Jo & Hannah on the Whitsundays, great girls miss them. Met up with the Cairns crew in Airlie Beach as well, good to see them again.
FRASER ISLAND - This was the best trip ever. We stayed at Dingo's had our briefing for the trip and met our little family for the weekend. Our group consisted of Irish and Hong Kong folk. We had the best weekend. It was a self drive tour of Fraser Island and I got to drive the big 4x4 and it was so much fun, felt I could drive through everything. The roads are the beach its very weird. It rained very heavily the first day & night but once we were all wet and got the beers out we soon forgot about the rain. The next day we went to Lake Mckenzie which is the most gorgeous fresh water lake, it was warmer in the lake than outside. That night it was nice and dry, we played ultimate Frisbee and we had the most beautiful sunset. The goon and beers made another appearance that night and we played numerous drinking games. The next day with fuzzy heads we headed to lake Wabby. It was liking walking through the desert to get there sand dunes and fields everywhere. We returned to Rainbow beach that day for a well needed shower. The whole weekend was such a laugh and giggle.
NOOSA - We went to Noosa for a couple of days just to relax for a bit. It was great there, lovely beach and a fabby hostel. We didn't do very much here hung out on the beach really for 3 days.
BRISBANE - Brisbane was the reunion city. Met up with Karen, Jean, Suz, Jenna , Lisa & Jennifer and hung out with them lots. Jennifer kindly gave us her unit for the week and she went to stay at her cousin's. It was so good having a home to live in for a while. We went to the XXXX brewery tour with Jean, Karen & Lis which was quite good. We all got 4 free beers after the tour, but me & the girls didn't really like many of them but Joe refused to leave until he had drunk all the free beers - he was a little tipsy when we left. With Jean & Karen we headed to Wet'n'Wild for the day in the rain so it was extra wet!! It was really good fun though and we made Karen go on rides she didn't want to, but she luved them after she had been on. Met up with the Cairns crew again and had a mad night out with them it was so good to see them again in Brissy. We hung out with Jennifer's cousin one day and Joe played golf with him, that night we ended up staying at Jennifer's cousins - too much beer again! We hired a car one weekend and went to watch Suz play hockey on the Saturday. That Sat night we had a girly night out which was the best fun, I had missed the girls lots. The day after slightly hungover Me, Joe, Lis & Suz headed to Australia Zoo. We had such a good day. The crocs were massive and I luved the Wombats . All in all we had a great couple of weeks in Brissy and I was so upset to say goodbye to the girls.
BYRON BAY - Byron Bay was 1 of my favourite places in Oz. We hung out with the Cairns crew and Wally (Heather) the whole week and we had such a blast. We went to Nimbin one day on the Grasshopper tour. That is the most surreal place I have ever been to so strange, all you can smell is weed everywhere. That was a strange but giggly day! We hung out at the beach alot, I shopped too much buying a pair of Uggs and designer sunglasses while in Byron. We walked up to the light house one day and we were at the most Easterly point of Australia. We had several nights out in Byron and just had such a good week hanging out with the guys and Caz & Wally.
SYDNEY - Well in Sydney we turned into Typical tourists going on the open top tour bus and visiting all the touristy places. We visited the Chinese gardens in Darling Harbour, the Sydney Opera House & Sydney Harbour Bridge. We went to Manly one day and had fish'n'chips on the beach. We also went to Bondi and hung out on the beach. We headed out one night to Darling Harbour and Cargo with Wally & Rosie, that was a good night out. We also spent a lovely but cold day up in the Blue Mountains, we even got snowed on up there for a split minute. Hanging out lots with the Cairns crew and we had our last night out with them and went for a hug pot of Mussels. Gonna miss them all heaps & heaps, our reunion is in London when we get back.
ORANGE - After Sydney we went to Orange for a couple of days which is 3 hours west of Sydney. We went here to visit Joe's old school master from Strath Allan school. We stayed with him and his wife and 2 boys. We had a relaxing couple of days. They kindly gave us the car to use one day and we drove around Orange went on walks around the lakes and mountains. It was a lovely relaxing couple of days.
MELBOURNE - Melbourne is where we are now. We are here for 3 months working and getting some pennies together for the next leg of our trip. We have been to all the markets and the Melbourne Museum walked around the city and tested a few pubs . Been to Geelong to Visit my Auntie and moved into our new flat on Southbank. Last weekend I celebrated my 25th and went to Geelong for a wee birthday party. I am working at the Royal Melbourne and Joe has got a job with a civil engineering company which he is enjoying. The weather is a little cool for my liking but it is winter here. We both really like it here and are gonna enjoy being here for a few months.
So that's our travels up-to-date really, so until New Zealand in August ..............
Hope you are all grand miss you all xx
Saturday 31 May 2008
Monday 10 March 2008
Road Trip up the West Coast Of Australia!
After Perth we decided to brave the outback and go on a bit of a road trip....well a 3 week road trip actually covering 4000km.
So we picked up our Wicked Camper Van in Perth, which was spray-painted with Iron Man and we headed off. Didn't go far that night just north of Perth, camper up for the night at the beach. The next morning it was my turn to drive and bloody typical he wouldn't start, had to call road side assistance and basically we had to take him back to Perth to get a new van - great start not such an 'Iron Van'!!!
Luckily we weren't far from Perth so we drove back and picked up our new working van with Captain Caveman on it, and we were off again.
Basically we had 3 weeks to drive up the West Coast our final destination being Broome.
The Aussie roads are long, flat and very boring! You don't pass another car in hours so when you do the horns are tooting and your waving your arms about cause its the most life you have seen in ages, well apart from dodging the odd Kangaroo!!
We stopped off at numerous gorgeous beaches up the coast just parking up in the car park and camping over night (dont worry we made sure there were showers though!). Our van turned into quite a cosy wee bed at night although the further north we got it wasn't so cost more unbearably hot!!!!
One of our first actually tourist spots was the Pinnacles which are bits of lime stone in a desert which just appear from no-where, very strange!
Our drive to Kalbarri was interesting. Huge winds brought all the red dust up from the ground and it looked like you were driving into another world it was all very weird. Kalbrri was great fun even if we saw most of it in the wind and rain. There was a Cyclone further north which was bringing this bad weather and the road was closed so we had to stay in Kalbarri a little longer than planned. Lovely coastal line and national park, which I am sure looks even better on a nice day, but hey! This where we gave in to camping for free and cold showers and went to a caravan park where we met loads of other Wicked van and general campers!
Our next stop was Monkey Mia in Shark bay where we got up & close to the Dolphins in their Natural habitat. The people who fed the dolphins picked folk out of the crowd to come and feed the dolphins, we were there twice, twice and I didn't get picked :(!!! Very un-impressed!! Some of the most beautiful sunsets in Shark Bay.
We then headed north to Coral bay, which a great wee place. We only stayed there one night and what a rain storm we had it rained and rained!!!
Then it was onwards again to Exmouth. We decided to head into the national park there our first night and go snorkelling in Oysters Stacks and Turquoise Bay which was great fun. Joe saw a blow fish and loads of sting-rays! That was the only night we didn't manage to have a shower not bad in 3 weeks of camping!!! We saw loads of crabs that night watched them for ages running about sideways! Again another most amazing sunset there.
We then headed to a place called Karatha which had the most civilisation we had seen since we left Perth, although bit of a pants place. Very much the working industry place where they have loads of mines. The next night we went to Point Sansom just a wee bit north and it was a lovely wee place, great pub!
We were almost at Broome our last stop was 80 mile beach which was amazing, but unfortunately you couldn't swim in it :(! There were millions of shells on it and it looked like it went on for ever. That night in the dark we went down to the beach to see if we could see and Turtles as they are laying there eggs at the moment, but no luck we just saw loads more crabs scooting about.
Finally the next day we were in Broome woo hoo. Still had a couple of nights left in Captain Caveman. We ate very well on our trip pasta obviously quite a few nights but we ventured out some nights and had steak and snags on the barbie. There are loads of free BBQ's everywhere in Oz, especially beside the beach.
In Broome we went to the oldest open-air cinema and sat in deck chairs under the stars watching a film - bit a crap one mind you, it was Joe's choice! We learnt all about the pearling industry which was quite interesting, nearly treated myself to some pearls, but managed to control myself and say no!
Then the day arrived to hand back Captain Caveman which was a sad event, but man were we looking forward to some air con. We were driving and sleeping in up to 38 degree heat with no air con - never again. I shed a wee tear, well in my thoughts anyway, he was a great van which looked after us well. We both had a roadkill each as well Joe a lizard and me a stupid bird!
So we stayed in Cable beach in Broome for a couple of nights in luxury air con ahhhhhh! Went on a camel sunset ride along cable beach our last night which was great fun, gorgeous sunset, although slightly numb ass after sitting on a camel for an hour.
So that was a quick guide through our west coast road trip, had such a laugh doing it and what an experience. Loved it.
We then went onto the Northern Territory and headed to Darwin on a 27 hours bus journey. It went a lot quicker than we thought it would. Darwin is great still very hot, but not as hot and humid as Broome. Just chilled out here for a couple of days checking the sights out.
Tomorrow we start the next leg of our Oz trip and fly to Cairns to begin the East Coast tour which will take slightly longer.
So until somewhere on the east coast ....................
Miss you all hope your all well xxxxx
So we picked up our Wicked Camper Van in Perth, which was spray-painted with Iron Man and we headed off. Didn't go far that night just north of Perth, camper up for the night at the beach. The next morning it was my turn to drive and bloody typical he wouldn't start, had to call road side assistance and basically we had to take him back to Perth to get a new van - great start not such an 'Iron Van'!!!
Luckily we weren't far from Perth so we drove back and picked up our new working van with Captain Caveman on it, and we were off again.
Basically we had 3 weeks to drive up the West Coast our final destination being Broome.
The Aussie roads are long, flat and very boring! You don't pass another car in hours so when you do the horns are tooting and your waving your arms about cause its the most life you have seen in ages, well apart from dodging the odd Kangaroo!!
We stopped off at numerous gorgeous beaches up the coast just parking up in the car park and camping over night (dont worry we made sure there were showers though!). Our van turned into quite a cosy wee bed at night although the further north we got it wasn't so cost more unbearably hot!!!!
One of our first actually tourist spots was the Pinnacles which are bits of lime stone in a desert which just appear from no-where, very strange!
Our drive to Kalbarri was interesting. Huge winds brought all the red dust up from the ground and it looked like you were driving into another world it was all very weird. Kalbrri was great fun even if we saw most of it in the wind and rain. There was a Cyclone further north which was bringing this bad weather and the road was closed so we had to stay in Kalbarri a little longer than planned. Lovely coastal line and national park, which I am sure looks even better on a nice day, but hey! This where we gave in to camping for free and cold showers and went to a caravan park where we met loads of other Wicked van and general campers!
Our next stop was Monkey Mia in Shark bay where we got up & close to the Dolphins in their Natural habitat. The people who fed the dolphins picked folk out of the crowd to come and feed the dolphins, we were there twice, twice and I didn't get picked :(!!! Very un-impressed!! Some of the most beautiful sunsets in Shark Bay.
We then headed north to Coral bay, which a great wee place. We only stayed there one night and what a rain storm we had it rained and rained!!!
Then it was onwards again to Exmouth. We decided to head into the national park there our first night and go snorkelling in Oysters Stacks and Turquoise Bay which was great fun. Joe saw a blow fish and loads of sting-rays! That was the only night we didn't manage to have a shower not bad in 3 weeks of camping!!! We saw loads of crabs that night watched them for ages running about sideways! Again another most amazing sunset there.
We then headed to a place called Karatha which had the most civilisation we had seen since we left Perth, although bit of a pants place. Very much the working industry place where they have loads of mines. The next night we went to Point Sansom just a wee bit north and it was a lovely wee place, great pub!
We were almost at Broome our last stop was 80 mile beach which was amazing, but unfortunately you couldn't swim in it :(! There were millions of shells on it and it looked like it went on for ever. That night in the dark we went down to the beach to see if we could see and Turtles as they are laying there eggs at the moment, but no luck we just saw loads more crabs scooting about.
Finally the next day we were in Broome woo hoo. Still had a couple of nights left in Captain Caveman. We ate very well on our trip pasta obviously quite a few nights but we ventured out some nights and had steak and snags on the barbie. There are loads of free BBQ's everywhere in Oz, especially beside the beach.
In Broome we went to the oldest open-air cinema and sat in deck chairs under the stars watching a film - bit a crap one mind you, it was Joe's choice! We learnt all about the pearling industry which was quite interesting, nearly treated myself to some pearls, but managed to control myself and say no!
Then the day arrived to hand back Captain Caveman which was a sad event, but man were we looking forward to some air con. We were driving and sleeping in up to 38 degree heat with no air con - never again. I shed a wee tear, well in my thoughts anyway, he was a great van which looked after us well. We both had a roadkill each as well Joe a lizard and me a stupid bird!
So we stayed in Cable beach in Broome for a couple of nights in luxury air con ahhhhhh! Went on a camel sunset ride along cable beach our last night which was great fun, gorgeous sunset, although slightly numb ass after sitting on a camel for an hour.
So that was a quick guide through our west coast road trip, had such a laugh doing it and what an experience. Loved it.
We then went onto the Northern Territory and headed to Darwin on a 27 hours bus journey. It went a lot quicker than we thought it would. Darwin is great still very hot, but not as hot and humid as Broome. Just chilled out here for a couple of days checking the sights out.
Tomorrow we start the next leg of our Oz trip and fly to Cairns to begin the East Coast tour which will take slightly longer.
So until somewhere on the east coast ....................
Miss you all hope your all well xxxxx
Monday 3 March 2008
Perth Western Australia!
Ok so it has been a while sorry!
Not sure where to begin..........so finished our tour of South East Asia and headed Down Under. Perth was our first stop where we joined in with the locals and celebrated Australia day on the 26th January. We brought our beer, Aussie towel to sit on, Aussie stubby holders, made our Vegemite sandwiches and headed down to the river bank for hours of drinking playing games and fireworks. The fireworks were amazing, the best I have ever seen ever!!!! We had such a good day.
Perth is a lovely city, bloody hot. We didn't do very much the first time there because we were waiting for the girls (Kathryn & Lisa) to arrive to do everything with them.
We visited Fremantle (Freo) which is a great wee place by the sea with a big harbour. Great cafes there and a great wee market as well.
We then headed south to Margaret River where it was much cooler at night. Stayed in town for a few nights cycled miles, ended up that I couldn't sit down for a day or 2 afterwards. I superbly wiped off my bike, have the lovely scares to prove it! I was ok, gave Joe a bigger fright! We then moved to stay beside the beach and took part in our first Aussie surf lesson - laugh I nearly died, I actually did nearly die. The current was so strong it took me all my effort to get back out into the ocean with my board to catch another wave let alone actually surf. Managed to stand a couple of times though woo hoo. Joe took to it quite well as well. We are planning on doing lots more surfing when we get to the east coast. It was good fun though, a major work out.
We then came back to Perth and met up with Kathryn & Lisa (my bestest buddies from back home for those of you who don't know them). It was so good to see them and we in Perth Australia with them.
We had a great week full of fun & games. We went back to Fro with them this time enjoyed world class fish'n'chips by the harbour. Then went on this speed boat ride which had us completely soaked (Joe chickened out and didn't come). Doing spins and jumps and then breaking really hard so the water just comes over the top of you, great fun!!!
Then we had a full day of rain, full hard-core rain, it pissed it down all day. The locals were very glad of it though and it only lasted one day.
We then celebrated Kathryn's birthday in typical Aussie style got some drink made a picnic and headed to Cottesloe beach to spend the day. Sunbathing, swimming, drinking, birthday picnic with birthday cake, it was good fun. That night we went out for dinner with Kathryn's cousin and his girlfriend and then went to a club called The Deen and experienced a 'Yager-bomb' for the first time!!!!! Enough said!
Kathryn's cousin took us to a wildlife park they day after where we got to pet Kangaroos and I got to hold a big fat Wombat, it was so obese!!! It was so cool though. We got to stoke Koalas as well, I am definitely coming back as one of them they sleep 20 hours a day brilliant!!!! That night we had a tipical Aussie BBQ watching the sunset. Joe loves the BBQ's he is always in charge of them and is pretty damn good at them.
We headed back to Cottesloe on Sunday for the Sunday session at Cottesloe Hotel, basically a big outdoor and indoor bar with loads of drinking and chatting, good fun was had.
The next day we set out on our road trip with Kathryn the driver. The stupid sat-nav was rubbish and sent us in the wrong direction so we missed our ferry to Rottnest Island. So instead we went south to Rockingham where we had lunch swam, shopped and just relaxed. We then continued to Mandurah where we got a self-contained bungalow for the night - it was so cute like a wee family on their holidays. Lisa cooked us an amazing stir-fry for dinner, we had the beers and we played cards most of the night. Next day we made the ferry to Rottnest Island, where we hired bikes and cycled our way around part of the Island in the blistering heat! We stopped off at a bay called Little Salmon Bay. Joe and I were just having a wee hug in the sea and when we came out this Rottnest brochure working asked to take our pics as they were putting together a new brochure. It was so funny having to pose and looking into Joe's eyes for a camera, we felt such idiots, the girls thought it was very funny!!!!! She said she would e-mail us the photos but not seen them yet! Ah the things you do when your travelling!
That night we had our last evening with the girls dinner and a few drinks then we said our goodbyes sniff sniff.....but it's all good get to see them again in a few weeks in Cairns.
So our next adventure was collecting our Wicked Camper van and to travel for three weeks up the west coast of oz.........but that is a whole other story which I will tell you very very soon I promise!
Hope your all well, miss you all xxxxxxx
Not sure where to begin..........so finished our tour of South East Asia and headed Down Under. Perth was our first stop where we joined in with the locals and celebrated Australia day on the 26th January. We brought our beer, Aussie towel to sit on, Aussie stubby holders, made our Vegemite sandwiches and headed down to the river bank for hours of drinking playing games and fireworks. The fireworks were amazing, the best I have ever seen ever!!!! We had such a good day.
Perth is a lovely city, bloody hot. We didn't do very much the first time there because we were waiting for the girls (Kathryn & Lisa) to arrive to do everything with them.
We visited Fremantle (Freo) which is a great wee place by the sea with a big harbour. Great cafes there and a great wee market as well.
We then headed south to Margaret River where it was much cooler at night. Stayed in town for a few nights cycled miles, ended up that I couldn't sit down for a day or 2 afterwards. I superbly wiped off my bike, have the lovely scares to prove it! I was ok, gave Joe a bigger fright! We then moved to stay beside the beach and took part in our first Aussie surf lesson - laugh I nearly died, I actually did nearly die. The current was so strong it took me all my effort to get back out into the ocean with my board to catch another wave let alone actually surf. Managed to stand a couple of times though woo hoo. Joe took to it quite well as well. We are planning on doing lots more surfing when we get to the east coast. It was good fun though, a major work out.
We then came back to Perth and met up with Kathryn & Lisa (my bestest buddies from back home for those of you who don't know them). It was so good to see them and we in Perth Australia with them.
We had a great week full of fun & games. We went back to Fro with them this time enjoyed world class fish'n'chips by the harbour. Then went on this speed boat ride which had us completely soaked (Joe chickened out and didn't come). Doing spins and jumps and then breaking really hard so the water just comes over the top of you, great fun!!!
Then we had a full day of rain, full hard-core rain, it pissed it down all day. The locals were very glad of it though and it only lasted one day.
We then celebrated Kathryn's birthday in typical Aussie style got some drink made a picnic and headed to Cottesloe beach to spend the day. Sunbathing, swimming, drinking, birthday picnic with birthday cake, it was good fun. That night we went out for dinner with Kathryn's cousin and his girlfriend and then went to a club called The Deen and experienced a 'Yager-bomb' for the first time!!!!! Enough said!
Kathryn's cousin took us to a wildlife park they day after where we got to pet Kangaroos and I got to hold a big fat Wombat, it was so obese!!! It was so cool though. We got to stoke Koalas as well, I am definitely coming back as one of them they sleep 20 hours a day brilliant!!!! That night we had a tipical Aussie BBQ watching the sunset. Joe loves the BBQ's he is always in charge of them and is pretty damn good at them.
We headed back to Cottesloe on Sunday for the Sunday session at Cottesloe Hotel, basically a big outdoor and indoor bar with loads of drinking and chatting, good fun was had.
The next day we set out on our road trip with Kathryn the driver. The stupid sat-nav was rubbish and sent us in the wrong direction so we missed our ferry to Rottnest Island. So instead we went south to Rockingham where we had lunch swam, shopped and just relaxed. We then continued to Mandurah where we got a self-contained bungalow for the night - it was so cute like a wee family on their holidays. Lisa cooked us an amazing stir-fry for dinner, we had the beers and we played cards most of the night. Next day we made the ferry to Rottnest Island, where we hired bikes and cycled our way around part of the Island in the blistering heat! We stopped off at a bay called Little Salmon Bay. Joe and I were just having a wee hug in the sea and when we came out this Rottnest brochure working asked to take our pics as they were putting together a new brochure. It was so funny having to pose and looking into Joe's eyes for a camera, we felt such idiots, the girls thought it was very funny!!!!! She said she would e-mail us the photos but not seen them yet! Ah the things you do when your travelling!
That night we had our last evening with the girls dinner and a few drinks then we said our goodbyes sniff sniff.....but it's all good get to see them again in a few weeks in Cairns.
So our next adventure was collecting our Wicked Camper van and to travel for three weeks up the west coast of oz.........but that is a whole other story which I will tell you very very soon I promise!
Hope your all well, miss you all xxxxxxx
Monday 21 January 2008
The end of Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore!
Ok wow haven't written in this in a while so will try to keep it as brief as I can, but you know me!!!
Ok so after Christmas it was down south to the islands. From Bangkok it was to Ko Tao where we spent New Year partying on the beach - surreal! Then we took the ferry over to Ko Phangan to the half moon party. A rave party in the jungle with buckets of vodka & redbull and uv body painting, not really our scene, but we had the best night, very drunken! We then went up to the north of Ko Phangan and spent a couple of days sunning ourselves on the beach and eating too much. Before we left Ko Phangna to get the boat to Krabi I found toast & marmite!!! It was great I loved it!
After the islands it was to Krabi, which was a great place. We did some Kayaking through caves which was great fun and very interesting, however we were both bitten alive! We also went snorkeling in the Phi Phi Islands, the water was so beautiful & amazing, loads of different fish. We visited the beach where "The Beach" was filmed which was lovely, however there were about 50 speedboats all parked up along the beach, so full of tourists! Great food street markets in Krabi and it was great to be back on the main land where everything was so much cheaper than the islands.
Our last stop in Thailand was Phuket, well actually Patong bay. We had a very scary bus journey that day, our driver was off his head and basically overtook at anytime, bugger anyone else who was coming the other way. This place was a bit of a dumped but good party scene. We went to an Aussie bar where we met an Aussie and then went partying with the ladyboys, who are more feminine than me!!!!! Loved Thailand, so cheap, beautiful beaches, great food, cheap beer, funny wee Thai ladies, and great weather!
So next stop was Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Flight from Phuket to KL took around 3 hours. KL is a nice enough city quite dirty though and apart from shopping and the Petronas Twin Towers not much else to do really . Hostel was great, and 2 minutes from the monorail which we used everyday. The shopping was amazing the only purchase though was a new camera (dropped it when I was slightly pi55ed at the halfmoon party) great deal! If you want electronics Malaysia is the place, they love them. The Petronas towers were very impressive, you get to go up to the 41 floor onto the sky bride to look out over KL. Oh yeh I forgot I did buy a fake designer handbag from the china town market, got a tip off from Karen Ogg. Found a great bar, the beach bar, it was like dining in a club almost. Great cocktails & live band.
6 hour train journey to Singapore was next. Had to get off the train with all our stuff go through passport control and then load back on at the border, but that was ok. We met up with our friend Stuart from home, so great to see him & see a friendly face. First night we had a few beers at a bar with happy hour, catching up on the last 10 months. Next day we sweated all the alcohol out of us by walking up and down Orchard road. Again people in Singapore love to shop! We also went to the night safari which was great fun. Although wandering around in the dark when you cant see things did feel weird. We went on a tram ride in the dark through all the different parts, saw hippos, lions, tigers & elephants and there was no fence, no nothing between them & us!!!! Thank god most of them were sleeping. Joe was picked out of the crowd to have a huge python wrapped round his neck - bless him he looked so nervous. It was such a good night, we walked through a cave with free flying fruit bats which I didn't like that much. We also took the cable car to Mount Faber to see a view over Singapore. This evening we are going to see the worlds largest fountain in the heart of Singapore. Tomorrow night we do the best thing and go to Raffles Hotel for some Singapore slings, woo hoo. Singapore is my favourite city so far, so so clean you get fined for littering, spitting even chewing gum (they don't even sell it here). The people are so friendly do anything to help you and unlike the Thia's they don't expect any money for doing it. Its rained everyday here though, but its just like taking a shower, warm rain, but there is a lot of it you end up getting pretty soaked!
That is our south east Asia trip finished on the 24th January we fly to Perth western Australia, and we are really looking forward to it.
Asia has been great though, we have had so much fun and are still having the time of our lives, absolutely loving it. Will miss the cheapness of everything here though.
Favourite place in Thailand was Chiang Mai, loved that place we had such a great tim there. Fav beer was Chang beer, fav food was Pad Thai (noodles, beansprouts, chicken/prawns). Fav night out was the halfmooon party, never been to anything like that in my life. Fav city is Singapore. Asia was amazing, but we are now looking forward to 6 months down under.
First Perth for a few days then head south to Margaret River then back to Perth to meet Kathryn & Lisa for 10 days ahhhhhhh so excited about that its gonna be so much fun!
So until Australia...............................
P.S Miss you all hope you are all grand xx
Ok so after Christmas it was down south to the islands. From Bangkok it was to Ko Tao where we spent New Year partying on the beach - surreal! Then we took the ferry over to Ko Phangan to the half moon party. A rave party in the jungle with buckets of vodka & redbull and uv body painting, not really our scene, but we had the best night, very drunken! We then went up to the north of Ko Phangan and spent a couple of days sunning ourselves on the beach and eating too much. Before we left Ko Phangna to get the boat to Krabi I found toast & marmite!!! It was great I loved it!
After the islands it was to Krabi, which was a great place. We did some Kayaking through caves which was great fun and very interesting, however we were both bitten alive! We also went snorkeling in the Phi Phi Islands, the water was so beautiful & amazing, loads of different fish. We visited the beach where "The Beach" was filmed which was lovely, however there were about 50 speedboats all parked up along the beach, so full of tourists! Great food street markets in Krabi and it was great to be back on the main land where everything was so much cheaper than the islands.
Our last stop in Thailand was Phuket, well actually Patong bay. We had a very scary bus journey that day, our driver was off his head and basically overtook at anytime, bugger anyone else who was coming the other way. This place was a bit of a dumped but good party scene. We went to an Aussie bar where we met an Aussie and then went partying with the ladyboys, who are more feminine than me!!!!! Loved Thailand, so cheap, beautiful beaches, great food, cheap beer, funny wee Thai ladies, and great weather!
So next stop was Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Flight from Phuket to KL took around 3 hours. KL is a nice enough city quite dirty though and apart from shopping and the Petronas Twin Towers not much else to do really . Hostel was great, and 2 minutes from the monorail which we used everyday. The shopping was amazing the only purchase though was a new camera (dropped it when I was slightly pi55ed at the halfmoon party) great deal! If you want electronics Malaysia is the place, they love them. The Petronas towers were very impressive, you get to go up to the 41 floor onto the sky bride to look out over KL. Oh yeh I forgot I did buy a fake designer handbag from the china town market, got a tip off from Karen Ogg. Found a great bar, the beach bar, it was like dining in a club almost. Great cocktails & live band.
6 hour train journey to Singapore was next. Had to get off the train with all our stuff go through passport control and then load back on at the border, but that was ok. We met up with our friend Stuart from home, so great to see him & see a friendly face. First night we had a few beers at a bar with happy hour, catching up on the last 10 months. Next day we sweated all the alcohol out of us by walking up and down Orchard road. Again people in Singapore love to shop! We also went to the night safari which was great fun. Although wandering around in the dark when you cant see things did feel weird. We went on a tram ride in the dark through all the different parts, saw hippos, lions, tigers & elephants and there was no fence, no nothing between them & us!!!! Thank god most of them were sleeping. Joe was picked out of the crowd to have a huge python wrapped round his neck - bless him he looked so nervous. It was such a good night, we walked through a cave with free flying fruit bats which I didn't like that much. We also took the cable car to Mount Faber to see a view over Singapore. This evening we are going to see the worlds largest fountain in the heart of Singapore. Tomorrow night we do the best thing and go to Raffles Hotel for some Singapore slings, woo hoo. Singapore is my favourite city so far, so so clean you get fined for littering, spitting even chewing gum (they don't even sell it here). The people are so friendly do anything to help you and unlike the Thia's they don't expect any money for doing it. Its rained everyday here though, but its just like taking a shower, warm rain, but there is a lot of it you end up getting pretty soaked!
That is our south east Asia trip finished on the 24th January we fly to Perth western Australia, and we are really looking forward to it.
Asia has been great though, we have had so much fun and are still having the time of our lives, absolutely loving it. Will miss the cheapness of everything here though.
Favourite place in Thailand was Chiang Mai, loved that place we had such a great tim there. Fav beer was Chang beer, fav food was Pad Thai (noodles, beansprouts, chicken/prawns). Fav night out was the halfmooon party, never been to anything like that in my life. Fav city is Singapore. Asia was amazing, but we are now looking forward to 6 months down under.
First Perth for a few days then head south to Margaret River then back to Perth to meet Kathryn & Lisa for 10 days ahhhhhhh so excited about that its gonna be so much fun!
So until Australia...............................
P.S Miss you all hope you are all grand xx
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
