A Big Adventure

Thursday 22nd January 2009, Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia

First order today was to move rooms to one with a double bed, yeaaahhh.

We decided not to even try to wake up the kids, we just left them just stopping to tell them we had moved to a different room.

There is a very tasty looking doughnut place in the mall across the road, so that was where we were headed. The Big Apple is the name of the Doughnut place and having bought two I was surprised to find that a cup of coffee comes with a free doughnut as well, so I had to endure  a third, Oh dear the things we have to do.

They were delicious and I will be back! Sofia and I then went for a walk though the mall because we needed some bathroom essentials. We enjoyed a gentle stroll and then went back to the room to drop things off.

Today is a ‘rest’ day so we decided to go to Limau Limau Café for some lunch, I had a very enjoyable lasagne and Sofia had some pitta bread with salad which she also enjoyed. We played some cards for a while, after that we wandered back though the wonderful Melaka streets to the Mall which we use as an air conditioned walkway to avoid the searing heat (as much as I love it) and we decided to find out what was on at the cinema – Inkheart at 7:00pm so we decided that would be good, we headed back to the hotel and knocked on the kids room door, they were still asleep (well what would you expect it was only 3:00pm) we told them to meet us at the cinema at 6:30pm and we returned to our new room to check out the net, and have a little read.

We met the kids outside the cinema, they were carrying a box of donuts!

It strikes me that the cinema although good quality and well priced is not as popular in Malaysia as it is in the Philippines or Thailand as this film was new in and the cinema was 98% empty and that was as busy as we have seen it.

Mind you, to be fair they do seem to have a lot of Malaysian language films so maybe they get the queues, either way it’s like having our own cinema, which is cool as it costs just GB£1.80 each. We all enjoyed the film (Inkheart).

Afterwards we went to Burger King as Basty had a major need for some degenerate western burger. I then headed out to get a massage, the girls were too late to have the photo booth session they had planned, so they went off to the park to take some pictures and apparently had quite a following, they then did karaoke in a near by KTV bar.

Sofia and Basty checked out the toast café (not it’s name but what it is), Sofia had whole wheat toast with coconut butter (yummy) and Basty had tuna toasties. When I returned Sofia was already in the room.

I spent a few hours updating the blogs and wandering the internet.

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