First things first, Euan's toe is much recovered thanks to my very large first aid kit. As I tell people I am a pharmacists daughter and I can't help but bring a huge amount of stuff, never know what you might need although you hope you won't need any of it. He's walking normally again and no sign of infection. Go me!
So, last I wrote we were heading out for some more sight seeing in KL. Lovely day but incredibly humid... even the locals were praying for rain! I tried to avoid catching any glimpses of my reflection as I know I looked like some strange sweating, red faced westerner. Most embarressing.
Visited the Menara Kuala Lumpur (aka KL Tower) which has fantastic views over KL and included a audio visual guide to point out some of the highlights. The Malaysians are very proud of the achievement of building the tower and with good reason. Whilst looking through the brochure (I love brochures by the way) I noticed that we could get a free shuttle bus to the Telecommunications Museum. Given Euan's long history of working in telecoms I thought this would interest him but I ended up enjoying it also.
The museum is housed in the original telecommunications building and was a very well presented display. Even better we virtually had our own guide to show us around. It seems they employ rather too many people to do all the jobs here. They were clearly very excited to have visitors and we even had our photo taken reading one of the information boards. Near the end they told us we could use the internet and this is what Euan wrote:
"A little sooner than I expected but it seems rude not to use the facilities of Malaysia's Telecoms museum. I don't know if Australia's even got a telecoms museum. Given my line of work I've found this place particularly interesting. Earlier today we visited the KL tower which forms the hub of the microwave network here. The customer service here is absolutely fantastic, having a great time."
Back out into the heat for a walk to the Petronas Twin Towers (oh look, sweaty foreigner...). Euan got sucked in by some monk (I guess, that was how he was dressed) who handed him a "lucky" card. Luckily Euan only gave him 1 RM. Apparently he was asking for 100 RM (about 30 aussie dollars)!
By the time we got to the towers it was time for lunch and more importantly, we never shop on an empty stomach! The food court was awesome. Euan ended up with a fabulous Laksa and I had chicken and rice. Then it was time to shop although there was more window shopping than anything else. So many stores and I can understand the attraction but I'm not a shopper at heart. Retired to a coffee shop for a very large coffee and I had the first of my naps in strange places.
Despite not being much of a shopper we headed back to Berjaya Times Square because it is cool. Had a wander through Border's (we really much stay out of book shops!) then had some chinese food for dinner and off to bed.
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You write very well.
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