Where in the World?
If there’s anyone out there still checking the site for updates, I’m sorry, you’ve been wasting your time these last few weeks. What have I been up to? Ah, not too much – this and that. Here we have one of the Batu Caves' locals (and probably one of my best pictures I'll ever take).... So, really, what have I been doing? Well, since I wrote last time, things have been pretty much all over the place, to the point where I’ve hardly... Read More
When a Massage Offer is Five Too Many…
Allow me to show you a little something I like to call...the view... According to my clock, in five minutes I’ll have been in Malaysia for one month to the day. It’s definitely not a case of a month too many, but it’s hard to believe it’s actually only been just the one month. After the whole Penang/Paradiso Guesthouse affair (as in, having a McDonald’s billboard being changed outside my bedroom window overnight), we finally got round to... Read More
To Penang, With Love…
The Super VIP journey takes to the road... Last weekend, what with it being another round of Malaysian celebrations (and accompanying public holiday), we decided to make good our escape from Kuala Lumpur and abandon Tune by heading up North to Penang for a couple of days. Incidentally, it turns out nearly every Malaysian had the same idea – buses were nearly all sold out, difficult to find, flights were selling at ridiculous prices and to top it... Read More
One Night in Paradiso…
A much quicker way to get to KL, as it turns out... Although I prefer to normally write things in a sort of chronological order when I write about travelling, this particular tale is best related while still fresh in the mind. Over the weekend, and in need of checking out of Tune (they were actually full anyway), we decided to make the most of the Hari Raya celebrations by nipping up to Penang for the weekend. Anna bought the tickets for the way up... Read More
A Malaysian Weekend…
One of many... Yesterday we finally went to view a place that was so good we actually more or less told the guy straight away we’d take it – even though it’s not available for a little while, so we’ll have to continue Tune-ing it up for at least a week. So, finally, I’m pleased to report that we now have a place to live; in a week, as I say. With that issue sorted, we were able to just get out and enjoy a bit of what Kuala... Read More
Settling into Malaysia…
Me commanding an end to crappy apartments... Buying a phone in Malaysia is a little different to Ireland – ever since the recession hit us hard back home, there’s now more and more staff and less and less customers, so you naturally end up with a situation where you’re always going to get served, provided you can prize a member of staff away from chatting to their colleagues. My phone store of choice over here, by comparison, had some unusual... Read More
Snoozing All The Way to KL…
Not to be attempted after a 'family party'... It’s 6:20 in the morning and I’m due to fly out on a flight at 8:50 for Kuala Lumpur. But for now, that doesn’t matter – I’m deeply asleep and have been since I went to bed 1 hour and 20 minutes ago following the supposed ‘family party’ downstairs in Duc Vuong Hotel, Saigon. Beers were had – quite a number of them – and as a result, I set my alarm for 4:30... Read More