No free breakfast but free tea was had in bed! A lazy start to another hot day but eventually we headed out to check out some of Melakas history. But not before brunch. Laksa (curry dish) for me, and fried noodles for Siobh. The red Dutch built church, town hall, and clock tower are the main draws. A ruined church and some gun placements were also checked out. Then the not so historical air conditioned mall provided shelter from the heat and sun. Siobh got a sho...

We were awoken by the bus driver shouting "Melaka!". A frantic gathering of our belongings and we were up and out of our seats and dumped at the hot, dark, central station of Melaka. It's 6am and it's a ghost town. We had to wait 30mins for the busses to start operating before making our way into the the centre of Melaka. The town was dead. Nothing was open and all guesthouses were displaying "full house" signs in their windows. It was still early and when we...