I had wanted to try chicken (or other meat) porridge during my stay in Malaysia, but since Alice obviously didn't want to, I kept saying I'd go the next day. I had asked the porridge shop opposite our guest house if it was open today- they said it was, but I forgot to ask at what time- too late for me to get it before we needed to get the bus. So I made do with my free toast instead. Very typically we waited ages at the bus stop to take us to Melaka Sentral ...

We woke up without having any plans, but we had a look at the guide to Melaka, and thought mini Malaysia sounded fun- it was described as a theme park with lots of houses in the style of different Malaysian regional houses, and different Asian countries' traditional houses. We had to get a bus to Melaka Sentral, and then get the number 19, but the number 19 took a long time to come. We got to where mini Malaysia was, and had Roti Cenai- flaky croissant type...

Today we decided to have a jobs day, so I did various things on the computer, then watched some TV program about food in space, and then read the reader's digest which I found I actually quite enjoyed while Alice sat with Doug (Astrophysicist guy) trying to figure out how to transfer her photos from her phone to the computer. Ajit (the guest house owner) reckoned a shop in Melaka would be able to fix my camera and unlock Alice's phone, so we went to the shop...

For the second time in our trip, Alice felt too ill with her swollen glands to go to meditation at a temple like she had planned, so we went to find breakfast together (the original plan was I was going to go to the breakfast place in the guidebook and print various stuff off at an internet café, whilst she went to the temple). The restaurant was closed but on the way back we saw a place that had a newspaper cutting outside about its coffee, so both had plain co...