Visit Melaka at the weekend After a moderately heated debate with the front desk staff upon checkout (the details of which I'll save you from) we left and took a taxi to the bus station (a very sweaty, chaotic affair). We took the 3 hour bus journey to a place called Melaka. Melaka is much smaller than KL and has a very different vibe; close to the Singapore border it has a lot of Singaporean weekend tourists. We had arranged to be met by 'Howard' who runs a ho...

Chilling in KL So we have ended up spending a bit longer in KL; think our energy is flagging a bit plus we quite like the place. Shopping is one of the main pastimes here and we have looked around a few of the malls - especially when it's been raining too hard to do anything else (which has been often). Plus the AC brings some light relief from the high humidity. We have done a little sightseeing. We visited the Menara Tower, which is the fourth highest teleco...

Alain and Loan This evening we met up with Alain and Loan again outside the mall in front of the Petronas Towers. (The Petronas Towers are the second tallest skyscrapers in the world behind 'Taipei 101' in Taiwan.) It all started in a very civilised way as we sat in a bar and ordered a bottle of wine. Alain wanted to share his recent purchases with us; in fact these purchases were apparently one of the main reasons this was their fourth trip to KL. Underwear. R...

Done with southern Thailand - on to KL (This repeats a bit from previous entry - sorry!) After leaving Ko Samui on Wednesday (5th) we had arranged transport to Krabi. We took a boat back to the mainland then a bus to a place called Surat Thani; we arrived at around 12pm to be told we then had to wait 2 hours for the bus to Krabi. Not too pleased as we were told we would arrive in Krabi at 2pm-ish. Anyway, at around 5.30pm we arrived at a travel agent near Krab...

Just a quick update as we've been on the move for the past few days. From Ko Samui we headed for Krabi town, ended up staying 1 night in a dingy hotel and rather than heading for an island or beach, decided to move on. Then took the public bus further south to Trang, again, this is usually a jumping off point for nice beaches and islands. However, a combination of dodgy looking weather forecasts and Matt having a reaction to his malaria tablets meaning he is ul...