Made it to OZ

Sorry I hav,nt posted for a while but leaving Malasia and getting the bikes into OZ was stressful to say the least, and I still hate the internet, plus I,m a selfish Bxxxxxd and I just couldn,t be arsed!!!!! we are relaxed now and installed at my brothers 100km sth of Brisbane and I can now post up the trip down through Malasia and into OZ over the next few days.John and Amanda made it to KL for the GP and a good time was had by all, we all stayed in a hotel at Port Dickson about 30km south of Sepang and it was great to see our mates with new supplies of books, newspapers and tales of blighty, so a big thanks to them. I have to put some photos up of the amazing places we went to in Malasia on the way to Jahor where we shipped the bikes from, we went to Malacca the oldest trading port in Malasia and then back up to KL to see Amanda off, at this point It had been agreed that John would join us down to OZ and take a break from the UK, John hired a car and we rode the bikes so just like Charley and Ewan we now had a support crew and it was great to ride without loading the bikes up so thanks mate for that.We travelled down the East coast of Malasia and stopped at a couple of places of no import, but we wound up at a place called Mersang which we really liked ,it a jump off point for the really nice islands in the south China sea, we are not going that way again so decided to go to one of the islands for a few days, it turned out we were the only guests on the whole island, we had a staff ratio of about 7 to 1 in our favour, a very relaxing 3 days that we would not of done without John being there. Hope to come on again tomorrow with some pics and more tales

Sepang circuit

We have John and Amanda arriving to watch the MOTO GP at Sepang so we decided to have a ride out to check out the circuit, security was lax, Sooooooooo!

Rection racing and the Bungalo at Martins and Sasha,s once again thanks for a memorable stay, keep in touch guys

Big rewind I thought I,d lost all these but I found a memory card with some pics on so I,d like to thank Martin Sasha and the kids for a great stay

We posted up on horizons , anybody fancy a drink in SA, Swaziland and got a reply from Martin in Hazyview SA, Call in and see us they sez, we were expecting to be in a guest house or hotel nearby but no they had a spare bungalow, as you do in the grounds of their house that was spare!!We also at this time needed new tyres and Martin put us in touch with Reaction racing in Nelspruit who were great. Martin is a great cook and his wife Sasha and the kids, Toby, Zac and Ben, I hope thats right cos it was a long time ago all made us welcome, Martin has a great toy cabinet, several BMW dirt bikes and a KTM enduro bike that he let me have a play on, the 2 oldest lads both have dirt bikes whilst the youngest is practising hard. Many thanks once again and I,m sorry this took so long but I tried to post it a week after we left and lost it all, (my IT skills) have improved a bit it seems. The only thing the family would let us do was to cook them a meal before we left, thanks guys for a great time

Monsoon bar

Many thanks to Hilton and partner Anyela/anya sorry I,ve forgot the name but a top host and hostess and great to meet Clare and the rest at Monsoon

Bit of a rewind

Before we left Thailand we spent some time in Au nang about 400km from the malay border and met up with a really nice bunch of people at the monsoon bar, had a great night playing poker with them and they clued us in on which border to head for, what to avoid, etc anywayhere are some pics

Landed on our feet in KL

Just a quick post as its nearly beer o,clock here in sunny Kuala Lumpar, having had to kick rats out of the way to park our bikes at 1 of the hotels we were checking out (we did find a better one) we went to a bar for a beer and they sold Stella there so I ordered 2 pints without without checking the price. 12 quid!!!! OUCH, I asked the waiter if it was served with a tube of KY jelly as I just been F*****d. he didn,t get the joke!!! Anyway we got talking to a bunch of guys who are living here and they clued us in on what to drink, exchange rates, local flavour and just about answered all our questions, thanks guys. It turns out 1 of the guys Scouser Dr John was leaving for the UK for 3wks and would we like to have his appartment till the 20th of Oct, what a result!!! anyhow we moved in today and what a brilliant place it is, top security, pool, parking, washing mashine, telly, computer, we can,t thank him enough a really great guy and a good joke teller! I,ll put some pics up in a couple of days as we are stressed dealing with the brit embassy at the mo as we have used all the pages in our passports. Thats about all for now P n B