Kuala Lumpur: Street art, Durians and Little India…

Watcha People. Glad you’re still with us 🙂

I hear it’s a wet and windy in the UK at the moment. No need for Mosquito repellant or Suntan lotion over there then Eh? Ah well, at least you can buy French sticks and fine cheeses at the supermarkets.

It’s strange the things you miss when you’re away from home… For Emma it’s Stokie oatcakes, for me it’s French bread, and we both miss cheese dreadfully. I also miss gigs, and there’s not much in the way of punk concerts over here hencefar. Hopefully that might change when we reach Indonesia.

None the less, when Feng Yi took us to the Petronas Towers at Kuala Lumpur (KL), we briefly ventured into an Irish Themed Bar, but beat a hasty retreat when we saw the extortionate prices they were charging. Thereafter, we went downstairs to a posh supermarket, which sold everything that western supermarkets do.

At the time we just bought a few beers and went back outside (to watch the water and music display we featured photographs of a couple of posts back), but we later elected to return to solely purchase some cheese, bread, and random missed western food items, like Baby Bel cheeses, and such like!

On route through Chinatown one afternoon, I was accosted by a young punk kid on the street, who had taken a shine to my UK SUBS T-shirt, and hoped to trade it for a T-shirt he had in his rucksack!

The punk, who it transpired was named Amirul, explained to me in broken English that it was his dream to attend the Rebellion punk festival in the UK one day, and as a consequence, I was suitably impressed with our encounter.

We were only a short walk from our guesthouse, so we stomped back up the street so I could retrieve a spare RAMONES T-shirt I had brought along with me, so as to offer him a trade. I also gave him a shot of vodka, so as to wet his whistle! He seemed pleased with the exchange;-

& thereafter, he gave me this excellent TOTAL CHAOS T-shirt;-

So big shout out to Amirul. If you read this and ever raise the cash to travel to England, get in touch with me, and I’ll take you up to Blackpool, to the Rebellion festival!! Incidentally, it was with some irony that I also observed a Malaysian punk rocker wearing an EXPLOITED T-shirt strutting past a mosque one day in KL. Who said punk was dead Eh?!!!

Trent eating the infamous Durian fruit! You eat it with gloves because it can smell and you either love it or hate it. Trent loves it, Im not so sure..

Taken in the Golden Triangle area of the city

Coalition Highways Agency cuts reach Malaysia…

Next up Emma and I were off to the KL Tower, which reminded me of the Tower in Seattle, which I was taken to by my parents as a child. However, it cost 100 Ringett each to go up (that’s twenty pounds a head), so we elected to take in the views closer to ground level!!

Fortuitously, the Grocers Inn has a cool roof terrace, so we were able to get some good photographs of KL, for nothing! Here are few shots from the roof taken by Emma, to give you a flavour of where we were.

KL Tower

The same tower, taken from our roof, in a thunder storm

This is when lightening struck, and lit up the sky!

Thereafter, we were to pack our rucksacks and head to the airport. We had decided to fly to Borneo, via Air Asia, and check out what Malaysia was like on the other side of the ocean!!

Our last meal in Kuala Lumpur in a Veggie Indian restaurant…

…in Little India. We were the only Westerners in the place, and the food was delicious!!

Trent */X