Sunday, 30 May 2010
Our last day in KK in a while began with another restless night in our dorm-like room. The outside noise just seemed to go all night – and when it wasn’t the local making a ruckus outside on the street, it was the other hotel guests coming in from their night’s out [ more... ]
Saturday, 29 May 2010
We had to change rooms at the hotel today as we initially only booked for two nights, but due to flight availability will end up staying in KK for three nights, and our room is required by someone else. We packed our stuff, then headed out for breakfast; even though breakfast is [ more... ]
Friday, 28 May 2010
We woke up after a restless sleep, the night didn’t quieten down much after the local shops closed – there were young children playing in the streets well after midnight. The breakfast offered was tea and coffee, roti canai with curry, and some fruit. We had our coffee over a chat with [ more... ]
Thursday, 27 May 2010
We woke relatively early (Tracy didn’t have a good night’s sleep anyway – probably still too full from the previous night’s dinner?) and packed our bags. We went for a coffee at what-has-become our regular kopitiam, then went back to the hotel to await our taxi to the airport. The driver arrived [ more... ]
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
We treated ourselves to a bit of lay-in this morning as it is the first morning in a while when we haven’t got some early morning activity scheduled. We made a leisurely saunter to a kotai kopi for a cup of coffee and tried to decide on some sort of plan for [ more... ]
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Woke up early and excited for our day. Headed off to the local Kopi Kedai for roti teduk and kopi susu to fortify us ready for the “tourism” experience of the region. We met the lady at the tourist office who introduced us to our taxi driver for the day who was [ more... ]
Monday, 24 May 2010
We got up and headed to the cafe we had lunch yesterday to find that the Idly had again finished, I am under the impression it never started as we were there at 7:00am. So we had a great dosai and Kopi and then headed to the bus station where magically our [ more... ]
Sunday, 23 May 2010
We decided not to stay at Mabul any longer, wanting to get out and stretch our legs, so are off to Semporna to spend a night and organise a bus to Sandakan. Waiting for the boat trip back to the mainland you realised how lovely the water looked and so inviting, if [ more... ]
Saturday, 22 May 2010
The last “official” day of diving and Scott’s head cold is not any better, despite taking the free-world supply of cold-and-flu, Sudafed, Zirtec, etc . Yesterday we swapped our Sipadan seats for today, but Scott cannot dive in his current condition, so we’re not going to get the opportunity for a last [ more... ]
Friday, 21 May 2010
Scott still has a head cold and cannot equalize his ears, even out of the water, so no diving for him again today. We were supposed to be going for our final dives at Sipadan today, but have managed to swap our places and will hopefully go tomorrow if Scott is well [ more... ]