During our time in Kuala Lumpur we had, as my Dad would day, the opporchancity to meet Tom Abang Saufi. To try to describe her character to you would be futile but she makes you smile and fills you with passion for her designs. Hand crafted in her studio, many of the printed pieces even hand painted in traditional batik…
I was thoroughly enchanted by the doorways of old Melaka – first the traditional town (or mock traditional, I’m not quite sure!) with it’s terracotta walls and then the rainbow of colour as we got lost in the local neighbourhoods of Jonker Walk. It wasn’t a surprise that Melaka was just as hot and humid as the rest of Malaysia…
You can’t really visit Kuala Lumpur and miss the Petronas Twin Towers – by that I mean not only that you don’t want to miss them, but also that you literally cannot miss them – these bad boys tower over the entire city day and night and they are beauties. Just look at them sparkling… We took a trip to…
Happy weekend (and hooray for good wifi)! A quick post with the new stripes (you know I had to get some new stripes for the trip) and the sliders which have saved me over the past 8 days. A trip to the orchid garden and the bird park in the Malaysian heat and humidity was the catalyst in my breakup…
The days are flying by out here in Kuala Lumpur but we have been so lucky to see so much and, honestly, there is something to open your eyes at every turn. The Thean Hou Chinese temple sits atop a tree loaded hill, bang in the middle of this crazy city and yet in an oasis of serenity. The details…
