My arm hurts

Alrighty,

Had my jabs and received the habitual punch on the arm from my brother yesterday, I’ve still got some more to go, but I am brave boy now – I've got a lolly and a sticker from the nurse to prove it.

By the way, this is our planned route: India, Pakistan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

Bird flu here we come

First post on the bugle

'Allo,

We haven't left yet so not much to report, apart from we're both preparing for our jabs, which I’m not looking forward to because I hate needles.

At the moment I’m a bit scared about the whole thing, I haven’t traveled before and the countries we are going to are totally different to sunny old England. Also the only criteria we have used to decide on the places we are going to visit seems to be:

1. Has there been some sort of natural disaster there in the past 12 months? Or
2. Is the country politically unstable?

Anyway, any suggestions about the things we should take or do before we leave would be appreciated.

(sorry this is a test picture of my cat Doofer. I didn't name him)