For 4 years I have been planning to leave the UK and the Finance industry behind to embark on a trip of a lifetime. Things got very comfortable in the UK, with mine and my girlfriends jobs going well and paying well and the purchase of our first house together threatened to derail the dream. However, when the opportunity arose to work and live in Malaysia, we snapped it up and we are now 1 month into our new life in Kuala Lumpur. I am not going to write a blog about the trials and tribulations of moving abroad as this is a travel blog! However, I will provide a summary for those that may be considering it. The admin is surprisingly time consuming and sometimes stressful and the goodbyes are difficult. As we are both ... read more

For the second week of our holiday we decided to head over to Bohol as we have never experienced The Visayas. We were craving a bit of hard travel and a destination that was not too common so we settled on Anda at the far East of the Island. From El Nido this is how the travel went: Minibus to Puerto Princesa (5 hours) – Flight to Cebu (1 hour) – Tricycle to Port – Boat to Tagbilaran (2 hours) – Tricycle to local bus station – local bus to Anda (3.5 hours). I was quite impressed with the local bus service that we caught across the length of Bohol. It was relatively comfortable and it was amazingly cheap (100PHP each). There is not much information on Anda in the lonely planet guide and I was ... read more

Our flight with Airasia was changed so we did not get back to KL on the 8th (the 10th Anniversary of TB) until late evening and we had a flight early on the 9th. This meant we missed the festivities and the chance to meet famous bloggers. I hope everyone who attended had fun! We had decided on Perhentian Kecil because we wanted a bit of a busier island after the stillness of our previous Destination in Pulau Weh. Getting here was pretty simple – Plane to Kota Bharu, Taxi to Kuala Besut Port, Boat to Long Beach on Perhentian Kecil. We were unfortunate enough to be arriving during a massive downpour. This meant that we got soaked on the boat and once we pulled into the bay at long beach, we had to get picked ... read more

After making the mistake of returning to KK from Kinabatangan (after leaving our luggage here) we decided to fly to Semporna to save some time. The flight was meaningless and hardly got off the ground before landing but it served a purpose, so it wasn’t meaningless. We hadn’t organised anything here so we managed to hitch a ride from the airport to Semporna. The bus dropped us off outside some stilted huts hovering over the sea. This place is full of them. Some of them HUGE. Anyway – this seemed like the tourist hub and there was a queue of people trying to book accommodation and trips to Sipidan and Mabul. We were not expecting this and this brought on a bout of panic in Laura especially after being told there was no accommodation left and ... read more

We had been recommended Lucy’s guesthouse by Andy and Emma (who we stayed with in El Nido) and so we had formulated a very simple plan for when we exited the airport: 1. Find a taxi 2. Tell the driver the address of Lucy’s guesthouse 3. Reserve our room at the guesthouse and enjoy our first night in KK. The plan sounds tough – but part 1 and 2 were simple, which is a credit to the transport system here in KK. However, part 3 was a failure. Lucy did not have a room until tomorrow – so we reserved that. Every other place we tried was full until finally we found a nice enough place (albeit quite expensive) pretty much next to Lucy’s. By this time it was getting late and we were tired – ... read more