Dear all, Can you believe it...we are now half way through our trip! We have spent the past six months travelling through Asia...Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. I love Asia and I am glad that we spent a good chunk of time here but I am now ready to move on. Also these are all countries that I have been lucky enough to visit before but in the next segment of travelling I am visiting plenty of new places. In about ten days we are heading to Palau in Micronesia and I am very excited about that! I think that things are going to get even more different and exotic! For anyone who hasn't been lucky enough to travel or is thinking about it..it really is an individual experience and it is hard to sum ... read more

Dear all, Its Friday and I am here in Boracay...the most famous white beach of the Philippines. I left my cosy room in Sabang on Monday morning and four days later I got here, with a few adventures along the way! Our first boat took us back to the mainland and it was an uneventful journey except that we saw dolphins..which is a great bonus. Then we got on our next ferry which would take us to Odiongan and would take ten hours. We quickly found our bunk, there was a bit of confusion as another Filipino man had a ticket with the same bunk on it, but we sorted it in the end. The boat set sail and we sat on our bunks and ate noodle pots...the only food available. Then we settled down for ... read more

Dear all, Merry Christmas!! Its Christmas day and we have only been up a couple of hours as we had to go out for Christmas drinks last night. I got up and made a full English breakfast...or rather what I could manage on a two ring gas stove! Tonight I will probably cook a stew or something like that. Would you believe it..its raining! So no sitting on the beach today. Instead we have downloaded Monopoly to play on the laptop and we are drinking hot tea and eating chocolate. I am flicking through the TV channels but so far I haven't found any Christmas films to watch...how can it be Christmas without watching 'Towering Inferno' or 'The Wizard of Oz!?' Yesterday we went diving and saw a beautiful turtle, no diving today as the dive ... read more

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Dear all, Its been a while since I last wrote but I am now back in the real world! We spent a month on Gili Trawangan near Lombok and really enjoyed our time there. The diving was amazing and we made lots of new friends. We stayed in a lovely room and both felt quite sad to leave. Being on a paradise island was not without its own frustrations including lack of abilty to communicate with the rest of the world, frequent power cuts and lack of any medical facilities. I had a bad stomach bug and had to tell the doctor which antibiotics to give me! I am much better now. We left Gili T on a fast speed boat which took us straight to Bali. We stayed one night in Bali but both found ... read more