Hotel Grand Continental Langkawi

... they joined us for the rest of the match and he told me his tales of traveling the east when he was younger, it was interesting hearing his travel stories from a few decades ago, we rely so much on the internet now it almost makes traveling automated compared to his tales of waking up in unexpected countries after catching the wrong ferry during a particular heavy drinking session!
Inspired by tales of winging it we decided to head to Langkawi with nothing booked ...

... gown that covers their entire body except for the eyes. Now seeing women wearing these on the hottest of hot days, was hard to understand I had a discussion about this with Darrell (who I'll tell you about later) and he told me how these women chose to wear these abayas. They either do it for the sake of their religion or for their husband. The men love this as it is a way to insure that no other man can look at his woman, and ...

... this AM--got 1 photo. It's easy to hear monkeys in the wild, often easy to see them. But photo?? They can be right overhead and concealed in the tropical foliage. There is a kitchen and fridge for self catering--I bought a watermelon yesterday and half of it is in the fridge--we shared the rest yesterday. There is an atmosphere at Zackry's Guest House which makes it special. Once you get here you won't want to leave. I know I don't.

... les plus gros frolent les 2m et que je suis bien content d'effrayer, l'inverse n'etant pas loin d'etre valable. Pour arriver de l'autre cote, il y a encore un col a franchir, qui lui aussi rend hommage a Pantani et au bout, on trouve un gros rocher un peu au large et ce qui reste du camp de prisonnier et comme il en restait rien, on l'a reconstruit, en incluant des panneaux explicatifs et des mannequins en beton, qui se montreront plus sages que leurs predecesseurs.

... pour une canette. Au depaneur une caisse de 24 est aux alentours de 6$ can! Ici j ai recu un visa gratuit de 90 jours! J ai rencontrer un australien en sortant du traversier, ca fais 3 moi qu il est ici, et c est un genre de bum qui voyage en voilier. Ca fait 10 ans qui fait ca il vit avec 6000$ par annee! J ai l intention de rester ici une semaine au moins, j ai comme plus envie de prendre l autobus :-) Ici la plage est pas aussi belles ...

... someone to just talk to, oh for i had other motives at hand! Its difficult having to endure certain costs alone when travelling by one's self and heard that Taxi's were pricey from the airport to the hotels. So i befriended the guy and got the result i wanted and shared a ride to town and then had a bite to eat with him (as you do), to celebrate the considerable saving. Now as Johor Bahru has nothing really to offer for a tourist, i was soon to make a ...

... typical Sparks, everything is so black an white, but it has a potential for a good romantic movie (we'll see what Richard Gere and Diane Lane can do) The Shadow of the Wind (by a Spanish writer Zafon) - great mystery book, I was afraid sometimes to read it alone in the dark The Partner (by John Grisham) - am finishing it just now. Good. Like. But it's typical Grisham ...

... and the waves had picked up, even getting on the boat was a challenge onto itself. The boat stopped at the first beach and another couple going as far as we were, then ventured to say (as the waters looked calm towards where we were going) 'that's it for getting wet'. Less then a minute later, a wave hit and we, our luggage and everything else was soaking wet. At 6pm, we were crawled up the beach in Railay and had a drink to celebrate our arrival into Thailand!!

... the coast. I think we went at just the right time of year, just out of season so there werent too many people, the beach never felt crowded and there was plenty of bars and resturants open. Our favourites were Cavana beach cafe (also called babylon) and another place i cant remember the name of- next to the chill out bar towards the end of the strip- maybe it was called tomatoe bar? The weather was perfect for us, most days ...

... Langkawi) as dusk was almost upon us. The taxi rank manager told us that the driver will just drive us around until we found some accomodation that we liked the look of, for a flat 6 ringits fare. We dismissed the first and second hotel on sight and Clive jumped out at the third to have a look whilst I stayed in the air-conned car. It was full (and more grotty than anything ever seen), the next one was ...