The Anniversary
We woke up early on our anniversary all set to head out to the island of Murano for the day. It’s supposed to be beautiful there and you can see them blowing glass and making vases but after checking the weather and it forecast thunderstorms we decided to stay a little closer to the hotel…
The Long Walk Round
Today we explored Venice, by explored I mean got lost, we first went to Piazza San Marco (St Marks Square) and then walked round the edge of the island to the North West but soon found ourselves in the side streets and not really knowing where we were, We ended up walking…
First impressions of Venice
Once we arrived at Treviso airport, we purchased a couple of bus tickets to take us to the island itself, unfortunately I’d bought the wrong ones so quickly had to get a refund and get the correct ones before our bus left. We pulled up at Piazzala Roma about 45 minutes later…
Telaga Tujuh
Telaga Tujuh or 7 wells is a water fall near the cable car in Langkawi, we headed out early as we had to get the hire car back by 1pm and we didn’t know how far we would have to walk. When we got there we found that we had to walk up a very steep hill and then up some steps to…
Cable Car
Today we took a drive out to Oriental Village which is where the Cable Car is. To be honest I was quite up for this…….until i saw it. I don’t think I realised how high it actually was. I was a little nervous as we wandered round the village before going up, but as we were here I thought might as well…
Langkawi
The day after going to Labuk bay we travelled from Sandakan to the island of Langkawi, this is the relaxing part of the honeymoon so we were just planning on sitting on the beach and swimming in the pool. Unfortunately as seems to be standard here, the second we got in a taxi…
Labuk Bay
After arriving back from Turtle Island at about 8.30 we quickly got showered, well I did, and grabbed a cab to take us on the hour long drive to Labuk Bay where we would be seeing the Proboscis monkeys. These monkeys are very odd looking with orange fur and big noses and they can…
Turtle Island
The first thing we did when we arrived in Sandakan was try to book our trip to Turtle Island but we were told by four separate travel agents that it was all fully booked and that we should have booked in May for a trip in July as it was high season. We obviously didn’t know that…
Sepilok
Today the husband and I (still sounds weird!) went to Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre to see the Orangutans. It was a beautiful day, blue sky and the sun was shining. We arrived about half nine and entered the rain forest. Already the temperature was soaring and as we waited for the 10am…
Sandakan
Yesterday evening we left Kuala Lumpur and headed out to Sandakan, we were slightly alarmed by the smoke in the plane but quickly realised it was the air conditioning, never seen anything like it before. After a turbulent 3 hour flight we arrived in Sandakan, within 30 minutes of arriving…
Petronas Towers
This morning we set our alarm for 7.15 so we could get to the Petronas Towers early enough to get tickets for today. We snoozed it a couple of times, course we did, we’re on holiday but still got there for about 9am and got tickets to go up at 1pm. Luckily there was an enormous shopping…
2nd Night Quickie
So after we had dried off from the caves we decided to head out into KL for a spot of dinner. We had a wander around towards the pertronas towers to see if we could get tickets but the ticket office was closed so we’ll have to go back tomorrow. In the end we ended up in an Italian…
Batu Caves
Our first full day in Kuala Lumpur saw us dragging ourselves out of bed after 14hours sleep (which still didn’t seem enough!) We were supposed to get up and head out early but with the need for sleep and the time difference we didn’t actually make it out the hotel until almost 2pm…
We've Arrived
After a very tiring flight we arrived in Doha airport and prepared for an even longer one to KL, luckily we’d booked the emergency exit seat so were able,to stretch out and sleep, for, about an hour in my case. We arrived in Kuala Lumpur and spent an hour getting through passport control…
I Do
We had a cracking time at Blake Hall and everyone else seemed to as well. Can’t thank you all enough for making it such a special day. The weather defied the forecasts of 20mm of rain in prolonged showers and the sun was shining all day long. We couldn’t have asked for better…