May 24, 2004

After four weeks of frantic moving around through Asia, the pace has just started to take its toll. Both Emily and Sarah have got a nasty cough, and Sarah's suffering from a rotten cold. So we've decided to break into our "rainy day" fund. When we set out, we'd said that if we got ill or anything bad happened, we could always just go and check into a decent hotel to recover. And that's exactly what we've done.

We're now in the Sabah Hotel, which is the only hotel within 5 hours of Sandakan with a swimming pool. For our 35 Pounds a night we're getting a deluxe room in a 4-star hotel and quite the best nights sleep for a long time (according to Sarah, we're resting between top quality sheets!).

We're flying back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, and if the colds haven't got any better, then we'll be moving to another posh hotel until it gets better. (35 pounds a night - that won't even get us a Travelodge in a month's time at home!)