Went for breakfast today at a cute little cafe that only serves Dutch and French snacks! Had a cheese crepe which is odd that it's kind of sweet and savoury!

Then we walked to the Christ Church, built in 1741 by the Dutch! It took 12 years to build as every beam is a single tree so I was expecting something epic!

It was just one huge room with four walls! No carvings or murals like you'd expect just plain white walls and a cross on the from wall! Yawns! And the woman in there was on a power trip, telling us off for taking photos and pointing to the no photos allowed sign; like that's ever stopped me before! I have bloggers to please!

The town centre here is so cute though it's well maintained, immaculately clean, full of flowers and the weather is scorching hot! My neck is burning!

We walked opposite the church to Stadthuys, (Dutch=town hall) which is now a number of museums. Ethnography and history of Melakka is weird, neither of us understand! I think this town has been overtaken by just about every country in the world and that many people have tried to destroy it! This museum just confused me almost as much as it bored me!

There is a large section on the British era though we're we once ran this town ;) it say how we tried to charge the locals that lived in the villages of this province something to do with council tax which ended up in battle that left hundreds of out soldiers dead and cost us £100,000.00! Bad move England!

It also said during the European war we tried to destroy all the forts and move everybody to Penang Island to make this town of less value to the Dutch who would take over shortly after! We went to great lengths to destroy the fort and after half of the workers died or became I'll even after there wages were increased the guy in charge (forgot his name) then decided to just blow it up! Again and again! Until it was all gone, and now all that remains is a replica of the old gateway to the fortress! This one of the main sights to see here in Melakka as it had the most impact on this town! God help me when I go see it tomorrow and there's loads of locals giving me daggers!!

We left to go look at a few more souvineers and clothes shops. The shops here are full of strange little finds, you can buy a pack of pencils that also double up as chopsticks!!!

We got Cendol on the way back again, as a drink to go this time, it was coconut milk with kidney beans and Cendol! It's the strangest thing I've ever tasted but it has an effect after the first sip you just want more! I need to try and make this when I'm back!

We went into a chocolatier to ask about the chocolate making course they advertise in the window! It's £10 each to have an hour to make a tray full of chocolates of all different flavours and fillings! Might do it one day it looks cool! The shop looks like sweethearts/thorntons but not half as tacky!

But then we passed a handmade soap boutique like LUSH where you can also make your own soap, into cocktail glasses! You make separate sliced lemon ones and umbrella ones then stick then in a glass! So I might learn to do that one instead as I already want to do a Malay cooking course at some point here too! As well as getting my future told by a Chinese gypsie at the weekend market this weekend, I have too much to doooo!

Got back to the room and Annie fell asleep so I went to have lunch on my own at a cafe by the river, Portuguese rice! Oh yeah, the Portuguese where also one of the many country's to rule this town so there's also loads of Portuguese influence too! They're lemon iced tea tastes bitter!

Sat in the restaurant on my own so that I would actually concentrate on blogs and not get distracted! it's working so far!

Wanted to go to some light and sound show, it's an hour long and apparently you can learn something about the history of melaka! Contacted Lee and Kelly who me met on a trek in Cameron Highlands, they're staying here too so we met them there at 8:30! It was closed! I hate it, the only museum in town that we actually wanted to go to was the beauty museum were we can see the extreme extents people from different regions will go to to make them look 'beautiful'; and this was also closed for refurbishment, two years ago! We found out the light and sound show closed four years ago! Maybe we shouldn't use Annie's four year old lonely planet as a guide anymore! :(

So instead we went to Jonker street near our guesthouse which seems to be the place to be! Sat and had a tower of beer with them at lavar and watched random street dancers perform! It's like a different city tonight, since we got here we felt like we arrived in ghost town and now the streets are getting busier every night, music and flashing lights are blaring out from the competing bars! The weekend should be fun if it keeps getting busier like this!

At 11:00 the heavens did open though, it comes from out of nowhere. One minute were sat sweating outside and the next minute I'm shivering indoors from a tropical lightening storm! We walked home in it at midnight, carrying our iPhones in a plastic bag they use for the drinks-to-go at the stalls, so they wouldn't get wet! When we got home, dripping wet and cold, Annie slipped up the stairs and landed at the bottom on her elbow! This made my night! It was only a tiny graze but of course the whole hotel new about it, she skyped her mother, demanded bandages and looked to see how much she could claim on health insurance! Gotta love that she's so mellow and never exaggerates... Oh wait!