When we move, it does seem to take most of the day. Today’s transport involved a boat ride back to the mainland then a few hours in a sparse airport (gave us plenty time to catch up on guidebook studies though!) before boarding Asia’s answer to Easyjet to get us to KL. We’d pre-booked the bus into KL for 9 sen (1.5p!), even though there was a queue for the tickets, it felt good to save money! Opting for a cheaper bed, we stopped at a hostel instead of a swish hotel. Costing only a tenner, but friendly staff, free internet, travel advice and book swapping made the Hostel Cosmopolitan priceless.
We explored the local area with Brad, a Kiwi on a 3 week trip, and eventually found La Cuisine – a 24 hour local food joint that had nothing to do with France (the “western food” stall was deserted bar a couple of rice cookers). I’m not sure what I ordered, but it was essentially some shellfish and other stuff scraped out of the bottom of a fishermans net along with a sauce so hot and spicy that I’m surprised the spoon didn’t melt on contact.