Wednesday 10th December We arrived in the port city of Lumut at 4:05am. Fortunately a good cafe was nearby so with NIcky we spent a few hours over a few coffees waiting for the day’s first ferry. Like elsewhere in Malaysia, however many times you ask for coffee or tea without sugar it always arrives incredibly sweet. The cafe was by no means empty at this early hour (some youngsters watching live football, Chelsea v Roma, others with their laptops playing games and watching videos, a couple of policemen, a few couples and then strangely a large family with several small children arrived a 5:15am and proceeded to have a full meal. At about 5:50am the wail from the mosque started, strangely mixing with the football commentary. Numerous staff prepared dough balls, chopped vegetables and swept
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