The Folks!

We're back in Malaysia and I think its about time I did and blog and gave Marie a rest. Also, it should be me that does it because for the past few days we've been "poshing it up" with my Mum and Dad.

We left The Philippines after our long day in the Mall of Asia followed by a stay in what can only be described as a brothel. Because Clark airport is only really "Manila" in the special atlas that only Air Asia and possbily Ryanair seem to own, we decided to spend our final night in the Philippines in the nearby town of Angeles rather than contend with Manila's Monday Morning Rush Hour when trying to get to the airport. It was worth it, although we didn't see any of Angeles apart from the bus station, it is a bit grim to be honest and officially the "prostitution capital of the Philippines"! Hurrah! Anyhow, we had a cheap and clean room and cable tv so kept ourselves amused whilst trying not to stare at every other person staying there, who was a) American, b) male c) a bit of a wierdo and d) had a heavily made-up Filipino woman on their arm. It did mean however a totally stress-free journey to the airport next morning.

We flew back to KL, and did almost exactly the same journey as three weeks previous, getting the monorail to Bukit Bintang. We had co-ordinated our trip to coincide with meeting up with Mum and Dad who have been doing their own extravagant travelling (their blog is here) along with their friends The Toms's. We stayed at the ParkRoyal Hotel, which, safe to say, was a bit of a step up from the previous night's accomodation!

Its been a really good few days with them actually, although a bit surreal at times after having been doing this travelling as a twosome for so long. We went to the Petronas Towers (and up the skybridge between the two towers), the Batu Caves, Jalan Pataling and Chinatown, a Pewter factory (and saw the biggest beer tankard in the world!) and had a good walk around town in general. We also took full advantage of the hotel pool and made sure we got lots of shampoos and body lotions out of the bathroom.

We only had three nights there and it was a bit like a holiday within a holiday, Mum and Dad have now gone back to Singapore on the train and we've gone back to the Rainforest B&B again for a couple of nights. We've got our train tickets sorted for tomorrow night which will take us into Thailand to Hat Yai and we are looking at getting to Koh Lanta by the end of the day after tomorrow.

Our first border crossing! And our first sleeper train! Should be fun......

Being mature at the ParkRoyal. Very big beds.....