South East Asia..........Done!

Apologies for the lack of blog posts recently. We have been hopping from remote island to more remote island and the Internet facilities haven't been great (think two cans joined by a piece of string). The posts will be a bit backwards too because we had a special guest for the last few weeks, our favourite senior; Conor Murphy. He is winging his way back to Haiti now and will be doing the update for the Philippines shortly.

We flew from the Philippines to Singapore last week and with a bit of time to kill before our flight down under we decided to head north to Malaysia and the beautiful island of Tioman. This was a bit of a last minute call but turned out to be a great idea because the island is amazing. We stayed in beach huts just off the beautiful white sand beach of Salang.



Salang is meant to be the liveliest part of the island but it was pretty quiet when we got there. We spent a lot of our time between Four's Cafe and Bak Bok Rock Cafe. Bak Bok was a beach shack practically overhanging the water. Its tiny but great fun, one of the nights there we were practically the only customers and still managed to drink the bar dry. BiBi (our favourite barman) had to race up the beach for more supplies. We then proceeded to finish them too!

Our last night in Tioman saw our tearful farewell to Conor. We sent him off in style with another epic night at the Bak Bok. Mark threw on the ipod with the playlist from the Great Friday going away party and BiBi seemed to have learnd his lesson and was well stocked for the night. God knows how we got up for the 7:30 ferry the next morning!

We headed back to Singapore and Conor caught his flight back to Haiti. He looked a shadow of the man he had been just a few weeks earlier.














Singapore is a very clean, modernized city when compared to some of the other places we passed through in South East Asia. Yesterday we took in the Singapore National History Museum and caught a cable car over to Sentosa island. There we had a street luge race as a way of deciding who was most qualified to drive the camper van we are thinking of renting in Oz. See Mark and Mick getting set up in their ultra powerful machines below.

After a stewards enquiry the finishing order was
1st - Mick - used his low drag well to just pass Conor at the line
2nd - Conor - should have won but got cocky and started celebrating early
3rd - Mark - early favourite but really let himself down on the day
4th - Darragh - benefited from flying start but not being able to steer proved a hindrance
5th - Eddie - might as well have not turned up his head was someplace else

Last night we met a few of Conor's work friends (Gill and Michelle) for a night out in Singapore. It is a really expensive city compared to what we are used to, prices are around what you would pay at home.

So the South East Asia leg of our journey is over and we are heading to Oz in a few hours. We'll all be a bit sad to say goodbye.


PS: Guess what we did this morning (see below). We're going to Hollywood baby!!