Right, now we've got the internet working a quick update. The A380 is fabulous and I only ever want to fly on Singapore Airlines. Huge seats, fantastic service and brilliant entertainment system. We did however nearly miss our flight to KL and got the golf cart treatment over to our connecting flight, shame the luggage didn't make it. We arrive at KL, no luggage but we know it's coming. Our taxi pick up isn't here. We enquire but are told that it's not coming to pick us up, we can get a taxi though, it's over 100km and will cost 250 malaysian ringits, that's about £45. We decide to get the rapid train and then the monorail. Two hours and lost of sweating later we arrive at our hotel. The concierge informs me that he told ... read more

We get up late and head down for breakfast, it's already hot and we planned for a walk this morning. We head off for a walk around the moat and I get lost looking for a particular street. We're accosted by several friendly locals, offering trips to assorted factories! We deciline and finally find ourselves back at Tha Pae Gate. We stop for coffee and then more walkies. I've taken to using an umbrella for shade, shame it's black and sparkly. Kev has been talking about booking a trip to Chiang Rai and the Goldern Triangle, so we pick one of many tour companies and book ourselves in for Thursday. We retire back to the hotel when it gets too hot to walk anymore and prepare for the 'walking street' market that happens every Sunday night. ... read more

I cannot believe no one has ever used that as a title to their blog........! We arrive in Thailand Suvarnabhumi airport just after 9pm, having been delayed in Bahrain for over 3 hours. This somewhat puts a spanner in the works for our first evening, bearing in mind we have now been travelling for well over 18 hours surviving on the luxuries of aircraft food. We are both holding out well and things are looking up, we disembark, get through immigration, through customs and are looking for a cab within 45 minutes! We hail a metered cab, having done the Limo before (1000 bhat) knowing that a normal Cab has got to be cheaper..... OK, so our driver speaks No English (why should he?) and our combined Thai language skills amount to saying Hello, Thank you, ... read more

We get up late at 9.30 as we're not driving anywhere today. There are craps lessons in the casino at 11 and we plan to make the most of them. Craps is probably the only game we've not played as we don't understand it but, hopefully after our lesson today we'll at least be able to play, if not win. The Pit Boss, Jimmy is a quick talker. He explains the rules, there are many and then the odds, also many. The Craps table is full of numbers, dice, chips, etc and it's all very confusing. Having watched it lots I still don't think I understand it completely. After an hour of explantion we wander over to a table where a guy who resembles a young Val Kilmer seems to be doing quite well. After watching ... read more

Ok, it's been a couple of days, but we needed the rest from all the driving. We left you in Reno for our drive to Vegas. The weather changed miraculously as we left Reno, it went from being wet and cloudy to a horrific storm just outside Tonopah (another weird town!) and then to fabulous blue skies and sunshine as we approached Vegas. We took a diversion onto the Extraterrestrial Highway and stopped for photos at Rachel in NV. Apparently there have been the most UFO sightings here, although I suspect that it's actually aircraft that the US Airforce have in development at the nearby Nellis Base. There doesn't look like there's much around Rachel and it's surrounding areas, but if you look really carefully there are huge bunkers everywhere and lots of rail road ... read more