Posts in the category 'world-tour-200203'
Posts earlier than 25 November 2002
Elephants dancing to Nirvana
We've seen some crazy things in the past week, (the karaoke bar in a buddhist temple was the pinnacle), but when we went to Malaka Zoo, what we saw was fantastic, Elephants dancing to Nirvana Unplugged... it had to been seen to be believed! (We'll show you a movie clip of it as soon as we can, as we've been playing with the video features of the DigiCam). Update: We finally got around to…
A damned good scalping
The heat has got too much for my head, (today is a scorcher) my hair has gone really thick & ichy (YUCK!). So Lucy ordered me to get a haircut or stop whinging! So I got my head scalped, now I look like a skin 'ed scally, or just got out of The Matrix! We tried to get into the bartering but they just laughed and so we got stung for a £5 bill. (They…
3 hours to Malaka
We made it into Malaysia yesterday, arriving at a place called Johor Bahru, we were told to take an "express" bus to Malaka. We later found out that the express bus was more like a cattle-van (nah it was alright really - Lucy). We arrived at Malaka 3 hours later. Stepped off the bus, then we were bombarded with tauts offering us hotel rooms & taxis. We noticed another couple of backpackers across the way,…
Um Shanti
Monday night we went to Raffles to have a long distant Singapore Sling with Lucy's Grandad, Cheers! Crazy thing about the Long Bar at Raffles is that you are encouraged to make a mess and throw peanuts at eat other! It was great, we had a riot! Tuesday daytime we explored Orchard Road (western-style shopping place), after an hour or two of shopping jet-lag finally caught up with us. So we went back to…
Singapore & The 12 Hour Flight
Saturday morning was crazy. I had a major hangover (thanks to Steve's cousin's drinking games) - but we get our act together, packed our bags, made it to the airport (big thanks to Pete & Mary for the lift)... Arrived at Heathrow expecting a long check-in, but to our amazement it wasso quick that we didn't even have time to request fire-exit seats (due to my long legs)...we didn't even manage a window seat. It was…
The Night Before
Thanks to all those whose who came out to say Good Bye or checked out the web site and emailed Bon Voyage messages. Fair play for Chudley who made it out of Brisol to the heart of North Somerset. Hopefully we will get up in the morning and manage to get the rucksacks packed. If not, I'm sure Singapore has clothes shops. Lee's bank balance should cope with a shopping trip. (ouch! - Lee) Love you all…