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I've decided that if I carry on attempting to finish blogging about our travels I'll never get to blog about my life in Oz, so it's time to scoot through things at a rate of knots. Here are the highlights of the remaining bits of our travels:

The Cameron Highlands were very nice, and we stayed in a place called Father's Guest House. Holly caught a cold, so we didn't actually do that much hiking around, and the one time I went for a "short" hike the group I was with took a wrong turn and we ended up taking 4 hours instead of the planned 2 to finish our walk. Holly was thoroughly unimpressed!

I enjoyed KL too, and not only because we stayed with the extremely friendly Sam and Penny, not forgetting Jessica, who called me "hairy uncle simon" Holly was still under the weather, so again our adventures were a little curtailed. Jessica was also ill, and by the time we left Sam was coming down with something vicious. I was fine, though. I bought a laptop here too. And jolly nice it is: an Acer Travelmate 800, with built in Bluetooth and wireless networking. And it goes like the clappers and has oodles of memory, though the hard drive is a little cramped --- can't win them all! The battery life is pretty good too, clocking in at around 4 hours of hacking time.

On to Singapore, which was bloody hot. Fortunately we were staying in a pokey room with air-con, so it could have been far worse. We also went to Brewerkz which sold some nice beer and did a very reasonable Happy Hour at about 2 in the afternoon. And I caught a cold too. Damn!

After Singapore, we flew to Perth, hopped on to an organised tour of the South West and ended up stranded in Albany. Doh! In any case, there are worse places to be, and on arriving back in Perth we promptly hired a camper van and scooted north, where we did a little diving. We then returned to Perth and flew out to Sydney.

Yes, that's a highly abbreviated, unamusing, dull account of the remainder of our trip. I should have been less useless filling things in at the time. Sorry.