So we thought we should explore some of the English coastline, Rob did a bit of research and thought that we should go to Bournemouth. We booked our coach tickets and had to wake up at 5.30 to make our way to Victoria Coach Station for our 7am departure, not fun! The bus trip was pretty comfortable, it takes about 3 hours to get there including a boring wait at Heathrow airport. We arrived and the weather looked threatening, and it stayed that way for the whole weekend! It wasn’t so much cold, more so irritating sprinkling rain that doesn’t warrant [View Full Entry]

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Hey All So to continue on from KL, we jumped on our Malaysia Airlines 747 (which I might add were a great airline, good movies and food) 14 hours away from London! By the way if I miss any ‘w’s in this blog it is not my fault, my stupid laptop keyboard is playing up! So anyway landed in London at about 4pm I think, greeted by those familiar grey skies and light rain I had missed for 2 years, and quickly headed to our temporary home in Hammersmith. As it was the weekend I dragged Di around to as many [View Full Entry]

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KL April 2008 Hi! We arrived back at KL airport from Penang and caught a shuttle bus to our hotel in KL. The shuttle took almost 2 hours and by the time we reached our hotel we were exhausted. We stayed the The Federal Hotel on Jalan Bukit Bintang in central KL. It was a nice hotel and in a perfect location to everything we wanted to see. First night we just relaxed and then went out for dinner and tried our luck at a tiny street stall serving Indian dishes. Again our meal and drinks cost us $4! We then [View Full Entry]

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Penang Island April 2008 Hello Everyone! How are we all? This will hopefully be the first of many blogs from us! The night we left Melbourne was nice, just had some family and friends over before we left for the airport. The flight from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur was around 8 hours and we both got a small amount of sleep. We then had to hang around at KL airport for a few hours before we got our domestic flight to Penang. During these few hours we decided to use an internet café and it was only then that we realized [View Full Entry]

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