Sunday 27th January 2008

Up late after last nights drinking session, breakfast, cheked out and into Taxi to Phuket airport. Managed to get Lonely planet guide for China as need to swat up on where I know I want to go, butits the transportation links that I have to get right, especially for the week of Chineese New Year when place apparently grinds to a haly and also its so vast, so any train/bud journey is going to take days!

Damn Air Asia...after my praising them the other day about my first flight, this one ended up being 3 hours delayed. So when I landed at Kuala Lumpur it was ina rainstorm and dark.

Trying to do things back to the old backpacking way, so instead of a taxi got on the airport shuttle bus which took an hour into central KL and then onto the overhead monorial for 2 stops and then on foot for a mile in the dark trying to find my hostel which I has booked on the internet and only had a poor printout of a street map.

Smiffies directional skills are as good as every and found it first time. As I am only here one night and so only really need a basic bed I thought I would stay in a hostel. Rather than a dormitory with a number of beds, I treated myself to an individual room. Place is really funky as its a converted Cinema (the old Rex cinema!). The room, well wait to you see the photo - talk about prison room and bare minimalist.....It had 1 bed 1 table 1 fan....thats it! Still paying about 4 pounds for the night so cant grumble.....let see how I sleep!

Its now 11pm and just finishing the blog.

Thinking loads about my daughter Rebecca, who is 19, as she has just had her tonsils out in Jersey and has had it pretty rough by the sound of it. Poor girl. Hey rebecca when you get to read this whilst youre enjoying your 2 weeks off school I hope youre feeling much better...XXXXXX

Tommorrow, monday, got to get up early and do a whistle city tour of Kuala Lumpur as need to be at the airport at 2pm to check in for my flight to Hong Kong. Christ I better get some vitamin pills.

Oh, arms and wrists getting better by the day...thanks to everyone for their nice messages..... I will be totally mended for when I get back in late March as need to get on my beloved bike again!!

More bloggin to come later...

Smiffy