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Went for breakfast at Orang Belanda art café! A Deutch/French themed Bakery! I had Vitsmitjter ham/kaas! Basically just cheese and ham pancake! Sweet and savoury though is never good and that's what Melaka seems to always do is mix things up! Makes it interesting though!
Went to the historical area today to learn some stuff! Walked along the hill where Stadthuys the City Hall is built and to St Johns Church at the top! Another slightly embarrassed to be British moment as the church underwent many changes/improvements over the years when it was overtaken by the Dutch and Portugeuse yet, when we British moved in, decided to knock down the tower and not use the church for a place of worship like others but to store gunpowder in! Trust it to be British!
Huge granite tomb stones with Dutch and Portuguese inscriptions stand inside the church... They look so creepy yet very grand, I really want one of these stones when i die please?!
After the Church we walked down to the Dutch Graveyard with a load of Tombs, covered in fallen golden leaves, it looks very spooky!! Wouldn't wanna walk down here at night! Annie pretended to be a zombie because she has so much respect for the dead!
Finally, went to see the gate to the Portuguese Fortress! Porta De Santiago or la'famosa! I thought was going to be a huge epic gate but was surprisingly only quite small and really pointless! I hate that they've installed an obtrusive red coloured steel archway to act as support to stop the structure falling down, so people can walk through and buy souvineers from here!! I'd rather see the building from a metre or so away, left alone, crumbling away naturally without a steel girder sticking out! :(
Still this is the gate to the fortress that was blown up and destroyed numerous times by the British so i best keep my mouth shut and avoid being blown up by a local here!
Enough history for one day I think for the first time I actually understand everything that's happened here just about so now that's out of the way time to unwind with a massage!
Or so I thought! We went to the oldest, most famous Chinese masseur in Melaka, really good value and she still gave us discount on top for having Ear candling as well as a massage!
She beat me up so hard that an actual tear strolled down my cheek and onto the floor! Rough is not the word she used her boney elbow to stick into every crevice of my neck and shoulders! I would have thought shed have calmed down after feeling my flinching away from her and tensing up but she carried on beating away! Never again! From now on it is only hot stone massages like the one in Vietnan=heaven!
The ear candle afterwards was nice though, I could finally relax! Although i did think it was gonna singe my fringe as the flame grew stronger and burnt closer down to my face! You can hear it crackle as it burns! The idea is the smoke from the lit, hollow candle sucks dust out with it, it's supposed to help nasal passages which it did! And soothes and relaxes! Altogether took about 45 minutes and cost £12 not too shabby!
Although we didn't leave for an hour and a half later as the owner was chewing our ear off about everything to do with England and taxes and Education, crime, her sons and anything else she could think of! We tried to drink our tea as quickly as we could so we could leave!
Went home, showered, got ready, and went to the Friday Night Market!
The Chinese Fortune teller is the only one left now as the market's now dominated by jewellery, bags, food, and souvineers! Only a few handicrafts and him are left! And he speaks only Chinese so we can't get it done... Gutted!
Saw the guy who holds the world record by cracking through the shell and the nut of a coconut with one finger alone! He does this three times a night and spends the rest of the night thinking he's some comedian, waffling on for two hours about the oil he uses on his fingers! It's so good to see! Got it all on camera but I can't upload videos from I phone to this blog or to Facebook!
Tried fried vegetable cake, fried yams and fried garlic potatoes with sweet chilli sauce... Heaven in a plastic bag! Tasted so nice and for a food bag full cost less than £1.20!
Then we went on to try fresh sugar cane juice! He shredded the cane on the street and made it in front of everyone! Didn't really like the taste of it though it was really really sweet and they said it had no added sugar! Again though it's 20p!
There's so much going on at this market! There's a stage with live performers singing all night long in front of the Temple and there's tv screens on the adjacent streets streaming the footage! It's so good how much effort they out into this weekend market it really is worth just coming to Melaka just to see this!
We sat and had a jug of beer this time back at 11 down near Jonker Street, after the madness of the market and bumped into the two rude German girls from Perhentian Islands! She laughed at the fact we came all the way to Malaysia yet we dived in a tank rather than in the sea, but there's no aquarium near where we live we're we can do this and it's more expensive to dive in the sea, were your only guarantee to see anything is by illegally feeding the sharks! Added to this, the money we paid was for a good cause towards helping save the sharks of the ocean and not taking a a speed boat which is going to threaten the habitat even more, so don't tell me what to do you horse faced, up your own arse, greasy haired, foreign b****!
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