We caught the bus from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur after a McDonald’s breakfast (somethings are just the same in any country). Our Aeroline coach had big seats with lots of leg room and some pretty good food. The in-bus movie was a bad quality copy of 2012, which was quickly replaced by The Blind Side, which mostly had no sound. This was still a step up from a lot of the buses I have frequented.
As we passed through the border check we looked at our documents and noticed the dates didn’t quite match up. We’d planned for a week in Malaysia, but somehow we’d booked 10 days into our itinerary- that was clever. My travel buddy had some family friends in Kuala Lumpur who had kindly agreed to put us up and thankfully they didn’t mind about the extended stay. We were picked up at the bus stop and taken to the house that we’d be staying in. We turned out to be luckier than we thought, not only did we have a place to stay but our hosts were lovely and treated us like part of the family. We chatted over tea and biscuits before going out for dinner at the golf club, before heading over to a coffee shop for dessert.
In the morning, we went into the city to meet up with the girls we’d now met in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. We weren’t meeting them until later but we took advantage of a day of shopping. Central Market was the place to go for all our Asian holiday souvenirs, with bags, jewellery, clothing (including lots of harem pants) and other trinkets. We even took the chance to take a break, whilst having our feet eaten by fish. After months of our feet, they needed some pampering- I’m sure they appreciated the experience. It tickled a little. I treated myself to a couple of bits from the stalls and bought some presents for home but planned to leave the majority of my shopping to Vietnam- our last stop in Southeast Asia. This turned out to be a mistake, the shopping in Ho Chi Minh City was not quite as good at this place and I missed out on lots of harem pants.
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