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My Mum's country!
... explaining we decided to try and order but the man explaining the menu turned out to be the DJ and nothing actually to do with the food stall. After eating, we headed back to the hotel for an early night, stopping in the lobby to use the Wifi (even there the connection was pretty sketchy causing a lot of frustration!!) on the way!
The next day saw us up at 7:30 and downstairs for breakfast at 8! The menu was fairly limited (fry up, pancakes or noodles!) so we all went ...
Miri...qué diablos hay por aquí???
... Llegamos a la entrada de las cuevas y obvio, hay murciélagos, con los que la cara de la abeja cambia rápidamente. Entramos y era una cueva inmensa, de unos 50 metros de apertura, donde entraba la luz del sol hasta como la mitad…de allí estaba oscuro. Abeja decidió que no estaba ni allí de subir y bajar los miles de peldaños, para ir a otro lado oscuro. En Lonelyplanet indicaban que había 1.5 kms más hasta la entrada de ...
Buses, Boarders & Bizarre Rules
... side. Only then can you make the final crossing into Sabah. It was a long journey but due to all the breaks it didn't seem to bad. I did alot of reading and listening to music along the way and did my best to request all the stamps not clog up my remaining pages (Fortunately this went quite well). Arriving after dark in Kota Kinabalu (KK) we checked into pretty much the first reasonably priced hostel we found (Expensive here) and went out for some food.
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Musings on Malaysia by Judith
... and sour crab, marinated and lightly battered squid, ginger and spring onion fish and oriental greens cooked in a way that even Sandra, who hates vegetables, drools over.
Shopping in Malls is the national pastime. Everywhere we have been there are huge, very flash, malls containing everything from designer shops to small craft stalls. And when all that shopping builds up an appetite, there are extensive food courts offering everything from ...
Miri
... t as bad as other Muslim countries, but there are some pretty disrespectful people that smoke everywhere and even if I asked them to stop, they keep going even on public buses. I get tired of going into bathrooms and smelling cigarette smoke. I was also quite confused about the reason for them having separate venues for food and beverages in food courts at malls. It happened quite often where I had to wait in two separate lines and I didn't like ...