Comfort Hotel Melaka

... Jackson tunes :-) They would make me chuckle to myself every time I saw one....I want one!!! <br><br>Nigel: As Alison mentioned, that because we had been staying in low budget accommodation we decided to book in some where nice for a few days. Once we got into Melaka we had a bit of a walk to find our hotel, which, when we eventually did find it on first inspection looked a reasonable place to stay. We did have some problems when we tried to find the remote for ...

... it had cool dioramas of fake people wearing &#8220;traditional&#8221; costumes, and the fake people totally looked like mannequins but of an Asian variety. <br><br>One thing we didn&#8217;t catch was an well-known tourist event called the sound and light show. The Malaysians even built an ampitheater specifically for this purpose, which is a show that highlights all of the local significant historical and cultural sites while playing patriotic Malaysian music. For ...

... a huge expanse of nothing, just a treeless, desolate, flat expanse of land, that stretches for hundred of miles. Every so often you would come across a roadhouse and petrol station hundreds of miles apart. After the petrol scare getting to Broken Hill we made sure that we stopped and filled up at everyone of them. Lots of them had strange attractions attached, mostly giant fibreglass animals (Whales, Kangaroos), but the strangest thing of all were the people that ran the roadhouses ...

It was nice once again to wander the streets of Singapore, enjoying the excitement of getting a bargain and then discovering it for less just down the road!! But fun none the less. We couldn't resist a visit to Cuppage Tce food court on our first night to remind us of the delights of devouring too many garlic chilli prawns. Even the pint of Heineken didn't help that much but we certainly went away happy, and the same people were there. It had been three years since the last visit and I think ...

... one of which has now broken! That evening I had some brilliant curry mee (spicy noodle soup with seafood) and a few too many beers with a guy whose just written a book called The Englishman, The Frenchman &amp; The Transexual - I know. The result of the too many beers was that I crashed out in the open dorm with no glass in the windows. I forgot to put mozzie spray on, the coil blew out &amp; it was too hot for a ...

... go up in, but it's just one of the improvements to Melaka we've seen. As well as this terrifiying tourist attraction there has been built an historical addition to the riverside- a reconstructed 17th century water mill! Woooo! I hear you say! We planned on being here until Friday, but we have found out that there is a malaysian food festival tomorrow night, and a street carnival, so with the promise of free food, it was ...

J'ai le sentiment d'etre rentré a la maison. je me suis posé dans un restau de rue, ai regardé flamber les woks, tourner les poulets, ai lu de nouveau un menu dans une langue obscure. Les sons, les odeurs, tout me parait plus familier qu'en australie. Revoici la rue asiatique...je crois que j'aime. Ici exite les motorbikes, place aux voitures mais pas trop. Quelques trishaws tres fleuris. La malaisie est le pays le plus riche d'Asie du sud est et ...

... at this hour, it was great as it was one of the top eateries we had wanted to go to. Capitol Satay, it says it all in the name but well it's a bowl of boiling satay sauce and various miscellaneous cookable/dippable items. The waitresses were great topping up our bowl of steaming hot peanut goo. It was fun!! although a few odds and ends were lost in the vat, perhaps for ever.... Monday 10th: A Dutch red, old town hall and later adopted Malaysian ...

It's the end of Chinese New Year, and after 15 days of dragons, fireworks, chinese opera, and paper towers on fire, Suz and I are faced with a decision. What to eat? The choices here in the city of Malacca are endless. It's like having half the hemisphere's cultures available to you in one buffet. What will it be today? Let's look at some options.... For breakfast: Breakfast is kind of a rough choice as there ...