Rogerson's on the Road

We arrived in Kuala Lumpar (KL) and made contact with my Aunt's friend Karen who had booked a hotel for us in the city centre. We were ushered into our windowless box. We guessed this was backpacking! And for 7 pounds a night we could not complain, it was clean with a comfortable bed, toilet and AC (even if the room was a little damp).

After the cleaniless, efficiency and familiarity of Singapore, KL was a little more difficult but we managed to do a good bit of sightseeing, a visit to the Chinatown is an unforgetable experience. Del Boy Trotter had nothing on the guys that have stalls here. There is absolutly nothing genuine to be found here, everything is hooky and the market is home to the worst fakes in the world. Imagine a Burberry print shirt with a Gucci label on it, a Rolex style watch (with the bubble on the date) with a Tag emblem on it. Chav central! It is also home to the funniest reference to Neil's height. As you can imagine the big man is getting hourly comments about his height, he is being asked how tall he is by anybody he holds eye contact with for too long, women are handing him their babies with some strange idea that he can make them tall, old women are standing next too him and giggling like school girls, all of which Neil is hamdling with his usual good humour and kind manner. However, when walking through the China Town market, between the hollers of "t-shirt for you miss", "nice watch for you sir, Rolex real real" and "Levi's imported from China for you", we hear "sir, sir, some Dockers for you, yes you sir, I have King Kong size for you!" Well, priceless is all I can say! Neil had to give him a chance. Alas Neil is still Dockerless.

We did try for a trip up the Petronas towers but we were unaware that they have a daily quota for trips to the viewing deck and you have to start queuing at 8 in the morning. However, we do have some cracking shots from the base of the tower!

We spent only 2 days in KL as Christmas is approaching and we want to get up the caost for the festive period.

We leave KL on the night train to Butterworth, heading to Penang. A first class, private sleeper carriage for the grand price of 5 pounds - bargin.