It’s a Goa!

We spent a very stressful week preparing Bessie and ourselves for our epic roadtrip. Just before I left work, Frank, my boss at the garage and I had given Bessie a full service and fixed a few little niggly faults. Tace and I also had to make some improvements to the interior so we’d be […]

We opted for one of the well put together travel packages offered at Father’s and took a minibus ride to the Northeastern coast of Malaysia. The trip started with the loading of ourselves, several other backpackers and somehow, all our luggage, into a very nice and brand-spanking new minibus.

We’ve the vaguest, dodgiest guidebook so South East Asia so we’re relying on the recommendations given to us by Lou the first time we met her and Clarence from Didders!

We booked the VIP bus to Cameron Highlands through our hostel (not because we’re posh but the VIP bus leaves a bit later which means we got a bit of a lie-in and it worked out about one pound more expensive). While waiting for the bus we got talking to a German couple, plus a bunch of British pensioners who loved nothing more but to talk about the collapse of Rover, which of course is very relevant to Malaysia!?

After managing to check into a prison cell like room at the Backpacker’s Traveller’s Lodge in KL’s chinatown and writing that bleary-eyed blog entry we had a shower and a couple of hours’ nap. Then it was time to hit the streets of this city that seemed to be from the future, with its tall high-tech looking buildings, overhead monorail trains and so-on.

We’ve not been able to keep this site updated very well recently. Partially because the internet place in Delhi was so fast that all our photos uploaded before we’d had chance to write much, and also the computer I used crashed twice during a really long blog entry so I gave up. Also, we’ve been […]