Posts in the category 'malaysia'
Posts earlier than 23 November 2002
A damned good scalping
The heat has got too much for my head, (today is a scorcher) my hair has gone really thick & ichy (YUCK!). So Lucy ordered me to get a haircut or stop whinging! So I got my head scalped, now I look like a skin 'ed scally, or just got out of The Matrix! We tried to get into the bartering but they just laughed and so we got stung for a £5 bill. (They…
3 hours to Malaka
We made it into Malaysia yesterday, arriving at a place called Johor Bahru, we were told to take an "express" bus to Malaka. We later found out that the express bus was more like a cattle-van (nah it was alright really - Lucy). We arrived at Malaka 3 hours later. Stepped off the bus, then we were bombarded with tauts offering us hotel rooms & taxis. We noticed another couple of backpackers across the way,…