Grandstar Rest House
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Biking in the Plantation and Other Stories
... which was a bit garish and noisy and hot but definitely had nice elements, including river boat cruises and picturesque, historical buildings. On returning to '***** *****' we rapidly concluding that neither of us could actually face spending the night there. With help from my sister's husband, we managed to find a three star hotel down the road that wasn't infested with lizards and weird showers.
Confused, jetlagged and culture-shocked out of my noggin, I sobbed myself to sleep :(
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Kuala Lumpur - Malacca
... de banque, dîner dans un restaurant indien où nous nous sommes gavés d'un sympathique poulet tandoori (un vrai poulet, entier et mariné, chacun..) et d'un ENORME jus de pastèque absolument délicieux, sans oublier les naans, au fromage et à l'ail comme on les aime !!!!
Et voilà comment se termine notre journée à Malacca, à priori la première et la dernière, car nous pensons aller nous rafraichir un peu dans les montagnes, aux Cameron Highlands.
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From the first Malaysian mess to Melaka
... who had plugged in some microphones and were doing really weird but awesome sounding vocals on it. It was quite a surreal experience.
After a while, we went off to slackline at the river side where we spent the previous night and a large part group followed us there. A smaller jam continued, along with the beers and the slackline, and we had a perfect ending to our final day in Melaka. Just before we headed to bed, we went on a ...
Melaka
... there was loads of food stall aswell but there were rubbish too. Hot dog sausage in a waffle..... weird. We had some corn, another sausage thing and that was about it. Not what we expected.
We watched football the next night in the Honky Tonk bar again.We had chicken schnitzel by the river and another bucket of jaz. Arsenal v liverpool. 2-1 to arsenal.
One the last day we went back to the mall to find me some ear plugs, and I also hinted to ...
Chinese New Year Facts!
... and happiness into the home. Most Chinese abstain from eating meat on this day (I have no idea why not eating meat helps invite the God of Wealth in... perhaps it's because meat is expensive, but I doubt it. Think it is something to do with the Buddhist tradition of vegetarianism purifying the body)
The second day is the opening day, known as 'Kai Nian' and traditionally son-in-laws would pay respects to their in-laws by visiting ...
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