Tanya telling tales

After our last blog we headed back to the local town and waited for a day for our bus to Mersing. We stayed on another beach called Telok Champadek in a cute little guesthouse with a balcony and a monkey walkway - they were everywhere getting into mischief and stealing the rubbish!! We also saw a huge black squirrel which we have decided is a Giant Malaysian Squirrel as no one can tell us what it was! We really liked the beach here as it was quiet and had lovely white sand - however the choice for food was not too good and we were forced into Macdonalds two days in a row… there is basically two drive thru’s right on the beach - KFC and Macdonalds and that’s about it! Next morning we left for ... read more

Hey again… feels like loads has happened since we last wrote (even though you will be getting our last blog today too… we have been having computer nightmares in Malaysia)! So Pilch got an unconditional offer after his interview and starts at Plumpton on 11th May! We had to reschedule the telephone interview after realizing that we were in fact in a different timezone (we had gone ahead 1hour from Thailand to Malaysia) - we hadn’t realized for two days!! The day after our last blog we had a little bit of a nightmare day - involving trying to find somewhere half decent to stay on the island and then discovering the time zone change and then realizing we had a virus on our memory stick and had lost all our photos! We spent a long ... read more

The flight to Phucket was heaven compared to the hours of bus journeys through Laos we had endured in the last few weeks… and we even got an in flight meal and pillows! Once of the plane it was a bus to Krabi to meet with Chloe -which after a few texts we managed somehow to locate each other…. Overly excited by our meeting up we proceeded to celebrate with a big bottle of Sangsom Rum and head to Macdonalds (shameful but you will never understand unless you have been without for 5months)… we got shamefully drunk, brought some crap from street sellers, drank lots of buckets, went to some crappy “Lazy Bar” which lived up to its name! Pilch tried to scream some obscenities down the mic before they quickly turned it off and we ... read more

It has slowly hit us that we have less than two months remaining as Uncle Traveling Macs and so since arriving in Vientiane we have been using our time as wisely as possible and fitting as much as possible in. For those of you who don’t know we booked our flights home - we will be back on 29th April (flying from Kuala Lumpur to Stansted) so this makes every day seem even more precious when we no longer have 6 months of relaxation and gluttony in front of us!! So we spent a day sight seeing in Vientiane - we started at a temple called Si Saket… following our good friend Tim’s advice over MSN that the emerald Buddha was well worth a visit. Unfortunately Si Saket is the former home to the emerald Buddha ... read more

Hello all ... just a quick update - we in Nha Trang in Vietnam now enjoying the sun and spoiling ourselves esp today - but back to that later... We got a little scammed in Siem Reap with our visas - the travel place got us a two week visa for the same price as the 30day visa we wanted - very gutted we complained and got $6 back but now we have to apply AGAIN for a proper 30day tourist visa and this time its $55!! AHHHH!! Read a bit on the internet and this is a known scam in Cambodia apparently - so anyone reading this.. be warned - make sure you get a Category C visa which can be extended and not a Category D which gives you two weeks only and is ... read more