Hello everyone, or just one, I don't know how many people will read this
Let me start by saying that anyone I mention in my blog has had the first letter of their name replaced by a letter of my choice as I didn't tell them I am writing this blog and they may wish to remain unnamed, you never know.
We arrived in Kuala Lumpur at about 2pm and headed straight to China town. I hadn't managed to get any sleep on the whole flight even when we were upgraded to Business class on the second leg from Kuwait to KL. By the way, I wouldn' t recommend the pizza hut in Kuwait airport.
Anyway, get a place in China town and head straight out to look at the market. Actually can't believe how hot it is here, it's ridiculous. Anyway next day head to the Petronas towers they have a brilliant mall there, shame I couldn't afford anything, and I don't mean because I'm travelling, it's just way out of my league. I bought a juice though, I think even though I said I didn't want any, they still put wheat grass in it.
Then went to see the aquarium underneath, Shark eggs are actually flat, 2D flat. I don't know if any of you knew that but I didn't.
When I'm in a nice, cool air-conditioned place I completely forget how hot it is outside so it's like a shocker every time. That evening we end up in a bar called La Rumba and end up making some excellent friends, really nice they were. There was Lanjit who was about 55, Glarence who was about 50, Old Wise Man (I never found out his name but that's what he looked like) and Jimmy Woo (also not his real name but if you could see him you would agree that's suitable). Jimmy Woo was a singer, the singer. He was on stage for most of the night and only joined us and the gang when he finished his set. He could sing anything and I mean anything and Old Wise man, although very old and frail was dancing up a storm. Anyway these guys paid for our drinks all night for some reason, that was good.
Next day after being completely ripped off, get on the coach to Kuala Perlis which is a 7 hour drive and that's where we get the ferry to Langawi from. I'm not even going to talk about the fact that the coach dropped us off in the middle of nowhere at 2am and I'm certainly not going to mention the hell hole we stayed in. We were lucky to find somewhere but quite frankly I would have preferred to sleep in a Colombian prison.
Now still in Langkawi, where it's definitely hotter than the sun. We would like to go to the beautiful beaches but the water is too warm and the heat is a bit too much, we're hoping we'll get used to it. we were only going to stay here for 2 nights but because of all the trouble in Bangkok we decided to re think our plan before we leave. We met the 2 people staying the room next to us, they're from Sweden, Lita and Grederick. They are coming to the end of their travels and told us that they are not very sociable and that they have spend most of their travels in the Cinema. Great. Langkawi is beautiful, and tax free so everything is dirt cheap. yesterday we went island hopping and saw loads of massive eagles all in the same place. At first I thought this was just their hangout but turns out this is where they get fed.
They only really have 2 good bars here so we've been going to Babylon bar for the reggae, and the added entertainment which is girls on their gap years suddenly thinking they can sing and getting up on stage (even though it's not Karaoke). That's always a laugh.
Tomorrow we're heading for Thailand. I do like coming to Internet cafes as it means being cool for a little while so I'll try and update at least every week.
But for now I will leave you with the wise words of Lanjit..... "Lions roar, birds sing, snakes hissss and sheep baaa. So why are humans racist towards each other"
