The view from our room

Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur

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November 6th 2011
Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur: Unfortunately (yet quite sensibly) we had decided to cut our trip short. The original plan was to fly into Bangkok, spend 2 days roaming around integrating with the locals and then catch a sleeper train to Kuala Lumpur. Mother nature had other ideas, and decided to put a large part of Bangkok under water. We didn’t want to take the risk of getting out to Bang ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more