Well the hotel was very very quiet considering it was right next door to the airport. I was very surprised. However, the sheets were noisy and they kept us awake. We got up at 8, re-packed and then headed in the buggy to the airport for breakfast. We didn't find much, just a pastry, but then we were wanting a proper lunch so that was ok.
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| Nasi Lemak |
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| Nasi Bojari |
As the airport has a viewing area, we thought we would have a look - Matt wanted to take some cool pics of flights landing and taking off with his new long lens, but the runways were a long way away, meaning you couldn't take a good photo or even see them that well. Oh well, we headed into KL on the Ekspres train and then on to KLCC on the LRT to do some shopping. First stop Isetan, to buy some mochi, a couple of t-shirts for Tom including a very smart Ducati one which was very reasonably priced. Matt, having got burnt all through the holiday whenever he went swimming, bought himself a sun shirt which is what most of the men around here wear in the pool - a UV shirt made of swimsuit sort of material which stops you getting burnt in the pool. Oh well, if we come to a hot country again he'll be sorted, although I'm not sure many Brits would want to wear one, poor Matt needs it though.
After that we headed to the restaurant floor and went to Madame Kwan's for a very lovely Malaysian last supper. I had Nasi Lemak (the national dish of Malaysia) and Matt had Nasi Bojari, another favourite. It was very delicious and a great ending to the holiday. Oh and if you are wondering, Nasi Lemak: coconut rice, chicken curry, dried shrimp floss, hard boiled egg, a nice onion thing with those weird caramelised tiny fish in it, and a little pot of pickles.
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| Getting wet in the fountains |
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| Wet boy! |
With our bellies happy, we headed to the Sony shop and Matt almost bought another camera lens but faltered at the last hurdle. We said hello and goodbye to the KLCC fountains (Tom got purposefully soaked in them) and then we headed to the Central Market, where we did some more shopping - this time souvenir shopping. We didn't spend as much money as we thought this holiday, the food in particular was way cheaper than we were expecting, meaning that we ended up paying for the Rasa Ria in Ringgits and still had more than enough left over. We could have bought up all of Central Market, but in the end we figured that we probably wouldn't use most of it, the clothes are great for Malaysia but not for Ingleton and our house is full of nick knacks as it is!
We had a sit down and a juice and decided to call it a day. We headed back to the station and got the trains and buggy back to the hotel.
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| Swimming pool with a view?! |
Then a lovely swim, jacuzzi and sauna before getting changed into fresh clothes and headed to the airport. We checked in and then went to our lounge - wow! It was lovely, hot food was made to order, we had a great view of the airplanes taking off for Tom. How very relaxing. Then to the airplane and a wonderful business class flight with flat beds. It is going to be soooooooo hard to fly economy again I tell you, just the ability to lie down flat makes the flights so so so much better. We were almost sorry when we arrived and although we didn't sleep for long, we didn't feel like we've been on a long haul flight.
We headed to the business class lounge and booked ourselves in for a shower. Then found some nice comfy chairs to while away the wait...
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