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Published: December 28th 2006
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Hi all, well im here in my second country.. Kuala Lumpur. Got here this morning at 6am...and this is how the journey went...
Got picked up from our place 15mins late (not unusual we've come to find) It was a little minibus (again not unusual, we thought we got that to Krabi town then a VIP coach to Kuala Lumpur).
The minibus started to fill as we got to Krabi..and then we were still sat in the minibus coming out of Krabi...hmmm...we thought people seemed to be getting too comfy for just a 20min ride...then when they were shuffling the bags around to fit more people in..they took our big bags and a woman stuck a yellow sticker on us..ahh we thought we change here...phew...so we passed out our little bags, the ones containing everything i need...passport, money, i-pod...winston the dog...as i was saying only the essentials!! Anyway,so our bags are on the pavement we are stuck at the back of the mini bus..oh no (i used a slightly different word to that at the the time) we aren't getting out at all...they were putting the big bags on the roof...but we've just given the bags containing all our worldly goods...yep there they go...on the roof!!!
We spent the next two hours crossing our fingers everytime we went over a bump...i was half expecting my boots to go flying off down the road (these were just tied on my bag!!). Luckily we stopped and had to beg the driver to get our little bags down... thakfully he did. phew! now we had them there was no way we are every going to be parted from them again!!
This was all happening on the little mini bus no sign of a coach yet! and 5hrs and two numb bums later... me and Nat finally got off the bus in Hat Yai...to wait 2 hrs for our coach! This time it was on time.. oh yeh only after we had to get wet on the back of a big tuk tuk...it was raining and they'd dropped us off in the wrong place!
Anyway, big coach...bags safely in the boot thing,small bags attached to us. Brill off we go... We had our seat numbers...26 and 27...upstairs we saw ..so off we went...ohh i thought, as i was ahead of Nat,the back row! the best seats on a bus (still dont get why,but everyone seems to think they are and we had them!) so i could pick...window seat or seat next to stranger..hmm tough one...obviously went for the window one...the best you'd think?!...nope.
After seating in the big comfy seats, Nats there moving hers up and down...so am i...yet mines not clicking in place! infact everytime i sat in it, it would just recline back with me..hmm..doesnt look good...even worse when we started moving and i was thrown either forward or back depending on whether we were accelerating or decellerating...and it squeaked while it moved...so there i was 12hrs with a chair that wont stop moving and squeaks!!
i finally found that if i stayed in the reclined position the squeaking stopped...so not bad i thought, could be worse...i'll just get my i-pod out...the bright green battery symbol in the right hand corner appeared red and only a quarter full! knew id forgotton to do something!
nevermind so i just thought id sleep...so i did...i closed my eyes and off i went for the next 12hrs....Twenty minutes later, i was awoke (the sleeping didnt go to plan throughout the journey after that) Passport control...so glad we didnt risk overstaying our visas (not that we would of course) quite scary immigration people...Anyway, back on the bus...another 20mins all out again baggage control now...but by the time i got there for my bag to be x-rayed the man had turned the machine off, so just waved me through! glad to see the security is of upmost importance here.lol.
The journey went ok after that,im sure we could have got there in half the time but i think our driver must have had a bladder problem as he stopped at every service station we saw!!
We arrived though, 6am...struggled with our bags and found a room...with a view of the Kulaua Lumpur tower...think we are going up that tomorrow.
Today we've just been round china town and for a wander round the shops. Not bad as cities go really, bit different from the beaches of the last couple of weeks!!
We've got tomorrow here and then the night bus to Singapore (im not sitting at the back this time!!😊).
Speak to you all soon...from probably yet another country.....byee for nowx x xx x x
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Louise
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Party night
Hiya, My last blog before I move onto Squeshs! and before I start getting ready for my lil xmas n new yr party tonight. Think there is me, emz, jade, vix, claire and laura coming. Sarah cant come because she is at work. Cant believe you have already been to thailand and now your at your next port of call. Its mad and its gone so quick! Xmas in one country and new yr in another. Om going to Yarm with claire for new year, looking forward to it. Meeting Laura for one then going to George to see my bro then we probs nip into the union for 1, or 2, or 3!! hehe. The heading to the keys, bros mate has a party going on after, dunno what it will be like but he lives nr eagle so might go there, drink there booze haha (Claire dont know yet .......she does now! Hi claire) Have fun where ever your lil legs take you, Me xxxxx