Sunny's Inn Melaka

... he knew two. He said 'Do you want Indian or Chinese?", We were like "well, euuh", then he continued "Better Chinese, Indians not so good for cleaning shirts". The funniest part was that he was Indian himself! We finally found it hours later. The town of Melaka is very popular with people from KL at the week end. It turned out to be a real family town...more like Disneyland, actually.


At night, everything lights up, you can go on a boat ride on ...

... guitar at one of the old forts (and had a small audience) suddenly stopped and said to Danny, "You remember me of the Staying Alive man, the American, you know?" to which I started laughing lots and the man got more and more excited about his discovery and shouted "You remember me a lot of John Travolta!". Anyhow after a couple of minutes the man's audience were now staring at a very red and embarrassed looking Danny! Hehe it made me laugh!

... me what had happened. Yet again, a delighted and obviously thrilled tourist, asked her to pose for a photo with them while their friend took the picture. I didn't see this happen however, so I was a little dubious about her story and told her that I thought she was making it up in order to make me jealous that I hadn't been asked for my photo to be taken and been mistaked for a famous person (maybe George Clooney, or Mel Gibson - okay, an overweight George Clooney, perhaps? More probably ...

... market. So we spent more time shopping. Tina was in her element!!! She claims this was going to be the last time!!!! One eveing we went out and got to see the malaysian record holder for piercing a coconut with his fingers. It was crazy when he showed us his finger afterwards it was a complete mess. Swollen and completely bent. We thought there must be an easier way to get the juice out!! We then went to ...

... parts. I talked to a lad selling rooms in a city centre hostel, jumped on the local bus and off I went. Just like old times. After settling in to my accommodation (a rather strange two level room with a ladder up to the sleeping area) I went out to explore. What had originally struck me as a rather authentic old town (code for open sewers and crazy drivers) was actually dominated with a big fancy shopping mall and umpteen western ...

... what else do you do when you are stuck in a rain storm in front of the Stamp Museum of Melaka?) We leave tomorrow for Indonesia and will spend 10 days-ish on the island of Java. Ernie is now reading Smiley's People, by Le Carre (I read it on Koh Chang, Thailand) and I am reading a book by Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt. Ernie is getting over some sniffles and sickies, but I think he'll make it. All our hugs and misses! Maija and Ernie