McGYVER the DRIVER and DODGING TRAFFIC

  An interview with Howie

 What's your favourite transport in KL? The elevated monorail because it's like a flying train.

What's the traffic like? Mad. Crazy. Typically South-East Asian.

How do you cross the road? Wait on the curb til you gain confidence and you find a little gap, start edging out, giving a small wave to the drivers and go! The general rule, I think, is if you've got your nose in front, you've got right of way.

How did you get to the airport? By a taxi through KL city centre rush hour with McGyver the driver who would duck in and out of hotel valet parking driveways to gain half a dozen car lengths. Impressive driving.

What's it like driving in England? Shut up. I'm trying to drive. (Fair enough). A bit distracting, with lots to see. Narrow lanes keep you on your toes. Just when you think you're out on the open road, there's another village. Generally good and exciting being in a new place.

 How's your rental car? Ex-cell-ent! The 2012 Seat Leon with inbuilt sat nav, duel climate control, integrated phone system that scares us when we accidentally hit a button and it loudly says, “There is no phone connected.” Etc, etc. Oh, and it's got a key that flicks out like a switch blade.

Towers & Toilets

Written a few days ago - postponed due to jet-lag.

 Kath, Howie and Ayesha here in England, at Ali and Ramzi's house..

Yesterday was mad, with the final dash in Malaysia. First me and dad went to the Petronas towers and spent AGES in line to get tickets. Then we had our last buffet breakfast, :( awww . We went to the pool after that. Me and dad went to the Petronas towers and first went up 86 floors!!! (Cue Picture )

Kath & Howie photographed by Ayesha the previous night

 ...then we went to the sky bridge (which is 41 floors up! )

Later we checked out of the hotel, hopped on the monorail and wandered around the huge shopping centres, until we found this...

T-Bowl Restaurant table and chairs

This is their signature dish.  Are you hungry?

We don't know its name but Peter says he 

should be 'Little Poopy'

It is a bathroom themed restaurant called T-bowl. The seats are toilets, the tables are bath-tubs with glass on the top and the food is served on toilet seat plates. The mascot of the restaurant is this...

We'll catch up with news of our time in England soon. 

UPDATE:   I thought I would add a link for this restaurant chain, for the sake of those who want a night out with 'Little Poopy' at the T-Bowl.  http://www.t-bowl.com/

Taiwan have a similar chain (possibly even more hard core in their toilet obsession), The Modern Toilet.  See them here at  http://www.moderntoilet.com.tw/en/about.asp

First days in KL

Ayesha, Kath & Howie here at the Renaissance Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Been a hard day of shopping at the Central Market, where this happened...

We found some doctor fish who clean your feet. It was really weird and ticklish, as you can see from Mum's face.  (We wanted to upload a video, but there's some sort of tech-glitch.  Just as well, because Mum's knickers did flash while she was shrieking and squirming).

All the markets and shopping centres that we've been to have been HUGE. There were thousands of people and one was 9 stories high with a theme park inside. Dad and I don't like thrill rides, but if someone else was there (Smithy!) Mum would've gone on the roller coaster (she's mad).

We've never stayed in a 5 star hotel before (though Mum stayed in some when she was a kid) and it's strange to hear Dad called Mr Gaskin all the time. Sometimes we don't realise who they're talking to. Here's the swimming pool, which is bigger than our house.

Howie wants a job driving the monorail. Simpsons fans sing now... Monorail! Monorail!

Kath's note:  Howie and I suffer odd travellers' guilt staying in salubrious surrounds like these but we get over it quickly whenever we go down to the buffet breakfast.

More from us when we get to Blighty. xxx