We love exploring new places, finding our way around and seeing new things. Seeing how long it will take before you can find your way back to the hotel without a map, is always a good game for the first few days in a new place, and we are often sad to leave places we have come to feel comfortable in. That said, there is a comforting feeling when you return to somewhere which holds good memories. Kuala Lumpur is one such place, being the place where my daughter Ha...

Well we made it – backpacks on we headed for the MRT and battled against the tide of commuters to get to the Golden Mile bus station. We picked up a promotional ticket for S$25 each (about £12.50) and we are directed to the coach. A beautiful pink and red bus- adorned with the words First class massage coach, and yellow fringed drapes. I hurriedly asked John to recheck the bus number on the ticket. Sure enough this was to be our conveyance to reach Kua...

Woke up with BatuCave legs this morning. My poor legs are really aching from yesterdays climb. I get reminded every time i have to go up and down a kerb- especially as they are so high here. I reckon they thought it would be easier if they ever decide to resurface the road, as they won't have to keep putting new higher kerbs in. On the basis that they don’t seem to bother doing resurfacing very often here the kerbs should be sufficient for a good while yet....

Here we are at the end of day 2 - our first full day in Kuala Lumpur. We will certainly sleep well tonight. We managed to find our way to Chow Kit market this morning – with a combination of a monorail ride and a hike around the neighbourhood first we finally reached the market. For those of you who haven't been and plan to visit at a later date the best advice would be to retrace the monorail track when you leave the station and you will reach the market o...

Well we finally made it after 14 hours flying time interspersed with a 60 minute hike up and down Dubai airport during the transfer time, and a rather tasty pizza and chicken wrap in the Fig and Olive food emporium. During the 14 hours John managed to get through 5 films including Bravo (aka Brave to those in the know), Dark Shadows, Prometheus, and a couple of others) I settled for Driving Miss Daisy in the end and an odd game of elephant memory. We were in the ...