Stripes, birds & orchids

Happy weekend (and hooray for good wifi)! A quick post with the new stripes (you know I had to get some new stripes for the trip) and the sliders which have saved me over the past 8 days.  A trip to the orchid garden and the bird park in the Malaysian heat and humidity was the catalyst in my breakup…
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Temple time – Thean Hou

The days are flying by out here in Kuala Lumpur but we have been so lucky to see so much and, honestly, there is something to open your eyes at every turn.  The Thean Hou Chinese temple sits atop a tree loaded hill, bang in the middle of this crazy city and yet in an oasis of serenity.  The details…
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Shopping Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur

Well hi from Malaysia!  After what seemed like an epic journey we made it to Kuala Lumpur and the first couple of days have been a big, awesome, hot blur.  Travelling can be so exhausting and after 30 hours with very little sleep I’m not sure I even remember Nancy shooting these photos but, at the time, the adrenaline of…
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Bedouin nights

One of the highlights of our week in Egypt was our experience on the Bedouin Feast and Stargazing trip.  Before you’ve ridden a camel you imagine it to be similar to riding a horse.  It is not.  Those guys are tall and stubborn and for once in your life you’ll wish your ass was actually bigger.  But it’s really pretty…
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My Red Sea Holiday

Sun – I ‘glowed’ (my dad says that only men sweat, ladies glow).  The Egyptian sun never gets tired of shining and I enjoyed it through a shield of factor 30 every day.  If I could’ve packaged some up and brought it back I would have. Sea – Fun times spent on the hotel pier impersonating Deuce Bigalow, ‘Here fishy…
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