Melaka-ka-ka-ka. It's a little town a few hours south of KL, some people think it is a boring little nothing place, others a pleasant little stopover on the way to or from Singapore. We'd fall into the latter category. Once a big trading post for the Portugese, then the Dutch and finally good old Great Britain it all went a bit downhill when Singapore started being the boss of the whole area and put Melaka in it's place. It's place being as a town that turned t...

Why doesn't Britain have a big tower? That's the first thing that comes to mind when you get to Kuala Lumpar, as this city has seemingly got loads of them. At least two anyway; three if you count the twin towers twice, which is probably cheating. London could really do with a big tower, it doesn't even have one in the top ten in the world, not sure where they could do it, but i'm going to suggest somewhere in North London as there is nothing else there. Or perhap...

I think it's fair to say that Kota Buru won't be featuring highly in our list of best places we visited, but it was only one night and one day. It didn't start well as the guesthouse we planned on staying at was horrible and populated by oddballs who looked like they live there. There are a surprising number of people who seem to live in guesthouses as their permenant place of residence, nearly all of them are middle aged loners who really belive that they are t...

So as I said in the last blog it was onto the Perhentian Islands which are lovely little things just off the north west coast of Malaysia, there are only two inhabited ones and we went for Perhentian Kecil (small island). It was a fairly harrowing speedboat journey to the island as the driver gave it the full gun across choppy water and with each wave the tiny speedboat was launched several feet into the air. About half the passengers loved it and laughed for th...

The first thing we noticed about the Cameron Highlands is that it is cold. Not sub-zero or anything but it apparently gets down to about 16 degrees at night which is a bit too much for us now. Probably because it's in the Highlands I suppose. Whatever. The Cameron Highlands are all about tea. Tea and nice scenary and in fact the scerary is made extra nice because of the tea plantations so it really is all about the tea. On our first day there we took a guided to...