So here I sit in the Kuala Lumpur Low Cost Carrier Terminal (or the LCCT for short, Malaysia's Stanstead to most people) using free wi-fi having completed the first week of our trip.

This morning we had breakfast in Thailand by the sea, we had lunch in Kuala Lumpur airport (well, if you count Dunkin' Donuts as lunch...I do), and tonight we'll have tea in Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Reflecting on the past week, in less than seven days, we've been to 6 airports (Heathrow, Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Phuket, KLIA and KL LCCT), stayed in the most luxurious resort I have ever seen let alone stayed in, eaten some of the greastest food (thai shrimp cakes and golden parcels!), seen some immense rainstorms, and had two days of glorious sunshine (I even have the sunburn to prove it!).

Clare will post more on the Mukdara Beach Resort and Khao Lak in general in a later post whilst I am off diving, so I won't say too much more, suffice to say that we paid 4000 baht a night to stay in a hotel that has rack rates of 13,000 baht a night (when we were backpacking, we used to balk at paying over 1,000 baht a night). It's 55 baht to the pound, so all in it worked out at about £90 a night including food, drinks and airport transfers...expensive for Thailand, but the local economy sure does deserve it.

We're about to catch the longest (4 hours) budget airline flight ever, but we have chocolate and drink and iPods so I'm sure we'll be fine.

Tonight we stay in the city of Manado, smack in the middle of Sail Bunaken (Indonesia's largest sail festival), and tomorrow head to our first Indonesian resort...Kungkungan Bay (aka KBR, click the signpost at the top of our blog for more) for four nights where we'll get down to some serious diving and serious spa treatments (me and Clare respectively!!).

Oh...and if you're bored, take at look at the shape of Sulawesi on a map...it's the oddest shaped island I've ever seen. We're staying right at the top near Manado.

I think we get free internet in KBR, so hopefully we'll post again from there!

Rob