Euan's take on things

Yay, on holiday!

Set off on Monday, flying out of Melbourne @ 15:00 for Malaysia where we're spending a couple of days. This has been the culmination of much planning and little bit of angst but we're finally on our way. A five week holiday, w00t!

The angst, well as you may know I'm now an Aussie(Aussie Aussie(Oi OI OI))! When I had my citizenship interview I asked what I needed to do passport wise as I had a permament resident's visa in my British passport. I was told that all I needed to do was get an RRV stamped in it.Imagine my anger and frustration when with 6 working days to go I was told I neeeded an Aussie passport :p Oh well, cost me an extra 100 bucks and a bit of stress but it's well worth it!.

Check in lady was quite excited with us, collectively we're 9 kgs under the baggage allowance of 40kgs, not bad for a 5 week trip! Flight was with Malaysian airlines and it had individual movie screens, computer games etc etc. Waste of time bringing magazines and books, oh well.

Oh nearly forgot, if you're ever travelling overseas and want to take advantage of the duty free on your return you can sort it all out before you go. We've got over 200 bucks worth of spirits waiting for us when we return, sweet!We're staying in Kuala Lumpar at the Equator Hostel, a basic backpackers place which is all we need and adds to the flavor of the place. We got in at around about midnight local time, a quick beer and off to bed.

Yesterday started off with an unintended trek, Suzie confidently strode off in a direction with the map and I confidently didn't even look at the map and followed Suzie. Over five kms later Suzie discovered it was 5kms in the wrong direction. Oops!

All good though as the National museum was in that direction, then the planetarium. We took in the Police museum as well which was very interesting before hoppping on the bus to the big shopping centre, Berjaya Times Square.In my case it was close to literally hopping. While my knee's pretty good the endurance isn't what I'd like it to be. The consquence is that towards the end of the day I was getting a little shaky on the legs and ended up tripping over a grate and ripping back the skin on my bg toe. Ouch! Oh well, all part of the fun!

Ended the day by sampling one of the local bistros, obviously tailored for western tastes, and took in a movie at the IMAX there (2D). Transformers is a fun movie!