McClay

G'Day folks, Well it's been a while but we are very busy having a good time. Australia was excellent. That's all I remember. We flew in from Singapore to sunny Cairns and after a long trip we hit Oz land. It was very weird as we had come from Asia and everyone was speaking ze English and were largely white. Everything seemed really expensive as a room in a hostel had gone from 7 US dollars to 90 Oz dollars, wowsers!!! We got sorted in the 'Global Palace' which was full of younguns running around flirting with each other and coming in at all hours shouting their heads off (especially the girls). We soon got ourselves out of there and rented the van. We hit the raod and heaed north to Port Douglas which as a ... read more

Yo folks, These blogs are coming thick and fast. Ye's'll be bored very soon. 25th of February we hit Vietnam. Got the bus from Shianoukville, Cambodia all the way to Ho Chi Minh City. We set off at 7am and reached the capital at 20:00. It was the Vietnamese Lunar New Year so the place was buzzin. We were a bit worried about not getting a hotel due to the fact so we checked into the first on that was decent at a staggering 18 dollars. Well out of our usual allowance but the place was nice. Headed straight out for a beer and to catch the fireworks. The place was crawling with people and especially scooters. You couldn't walk through the people and then a scooter would come through, it was ridiculous. I was losing ... read more

Sawaadee Kap, http://picasaweb.google.com/Niall.McClay/Bangkok Bangkok was bangin'. After leaving Phuket and travelling all through the night on the bus we arrived into Bangkok early Sunday morning 09:00. We all jumped in a taxi and speed off for the city centre. Emma and Rick had been before so we could relax in the knowledge we shouldn't get ripped off by the taxi man. He dropped us off at the Koh San road and we bailed out and took a walk looking for a hotel. We got booked into a place called 'My House' guest house, which incidentally looked nothing like my house but I didn't question it. It was cheap as chips at five pounds a night, well in budget. After we dropped off our bags we had a big breakfast around the corner and took time to ... read more

it's about time we started putting some stuff on this blog! latest update is ... we've been having pretty much of a chilled out beach type holiday in ko lanta, south thailand and it's great. we can't get our heads around the fact it's going to be christmas soon at all as feels like we are on our summer hols. we got here from penang in malaysia and we were v happy when crossing the border that we had got our visas sorted before we left the UK as the thai govt had just changed the visa terms 2 days before we crossed which meant anyone coming into thailand from Malaysia had only 15 days as opposed to the usual 30 days. 15 days would have scuppered a lot of our plans around xmas and new ... read more

Hit Singapore last night after a 13 hour flight. It was rainging, good start!! Booked into a hotel and got a restless nights sleep. We have decided to get ourselves up to Thailand soon as, it's well clammy down here. I will be needing a wet wipe of Lorraine in a minute as I am swaeting all over. You know the score. We are both quite tired still but we have booked our train up to Kuala Lumpar on the sleeper so that's a nights accomodation and travle in one, sweet child o'mine. We are both a little bewildered as it is day one but we have met another couple already and are going for a beer. Just to cool down you understand. Signing off for now but will have more going on one we are ... read more