{"id":231,"date":"2008-07-16T04:48:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/return-to-kl\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T04:48:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:48:58","slug":"return-to-kl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/return-to-kl\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to KL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/simonstudyguide.JPG\"><\/div>\n<p>When we move, it does seem to take most of the day. Today&#8217;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&#8217;s answer to Easyjet to get us to KL. We&#8217;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.<br \/>\nWe explored the local area with Brad, a Kiwi on a 3 week trip, and eventually found La Cuisine &#8211; a 24 hour local food joint that had nothing to do with France (the &#8220;western food&#8221; stall was deserted bar a couple of rice cookers). I&#8217;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&#8217;m surprised the spoon didn&#8217;t melt on contact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we move, it does seem to take most of the day. Today&#8217;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&#8217;s answer to Easyjet to get us to KL. We&#8217;d pre-booked the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/return-to-kl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Return to KL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}