Blogs from Tanah Rata, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 13

So the football (fa, not the crappy champo), what a game it was, I spent 9+ hours in an Irish bar owned by a German, eating English food and awaiting the feast of goals. I did so well to avoid English cuisine, but a cheese burger and Scampi and chips just called out to me (it gave me the shits - bloody western food). Potter has also decided after numerous English breakfasts failed to meet the desired quality level, to return back to the rice and meat routine. The morning before the final we went sea kayaking, and even ventured into some stunning sea mangroves on the Krabi coast. This was the seen for another attack by monkey’s. They leapt off the trees around us onto our Kayak, of course with monkey - human relations not ... read more

05.05.06 Up at 8.30am, packed had breakfast (she gave us extra toast and fruit because she liked us) and caught our bus at 11am to the Cameron Highlands. (Andy thought he was going to an island!! No highland!) A couple of days ago we started to check out the bus timetables to the Highlands so we had an idea of what time we had to be at the bus station, as you do. We found that there were about 4 companies that do the trip and guess what? We must have chosen the oldest, slowest bus to get on out of all the ones on offer. So much for our research then! So were a little annoyed. But later we were very grateful as the roads up to the Cameron Highlands are very bendy and high. ... read more

After furlough from 1964 to 1965, I returned to Bangkok, Thailand where Dalat School had been evacuated to that Spring. I attended the Fall semester. Bangkok was hot and humid, and the air conditioning couldn't keep up with dorm rooms that had two triple deck bunk beds in them. By the time the Spring semester started, Dalat School found new home at the Eastern Hotel in Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. This had also been a hill station for British colonialists to get away from the heat and humidity of the lowlands. Only these highlands were very humid; so much so that the school had to send the laundry down to mountain to dry. The Cameron Highlands had a very British Smoke House Restaurant and the Cameron Highlands Hotel with a nine hole ... read more