Started the day by returning to The Saturday Ice Cafe, where we had a delicious breakfast yesterday, after negotiating with the lovely smiley old woman who at first refused our order for two bowls –...

I was getting baffled: is it an a or an e? Google of course knows the answer: the more familiar Malacca dates back to colonial times; nowadays, Melaka is the more acceptable form. Though everyone still...

“Excuse me, do you know how we get to the bird park?” “We have a bird park?” It was that kind of day.  Excellent start, when we visited what’s become our go to street for...

…it really is the most astonishing building. Approached at ground level, Petronas Towers are enormous. If it were three or four stories it would be a huge building, with a footprint the size of a...