Squishy train rides and time for the Monorail, monorail, monorail

I had a whole bunch of fun this morning trying to pack my bags. I've bought a fair whack of stuff in iPoh, including a new outfit for Hari Raya (a Malay outfit) that I won't wear this week. I struggled like hell to get the bags closed. Oops.

After ditching the bags at the hotel, I set off in a taxi to Ipoh's oldest and original white coffee shop. They had these amazing little bun/brioche/muffin things in Orange, Blueberry and Chocolate flavour, so I bought two orange, an Iced white coffee and some kaya toast. Awesome breakfast and only RM6 which is like $2 in Aussie. Wicked.

I took a few photos and will post them when I pull them off my iPad and iPhone.  I wasn't sure where to get a taxi back from so I walked back to the hotel. Turns out it was only 15 mins walk and I stopped to get some beautiful Malay fabric on the way back. Double oops.

I returned to the hotel with just enough time to wait for a taxi to take me back to the train station, where I smashed down another can of iced coffee before being squished into my train seat by a woman so big that she took 1/3rd of my seat in addition to her own. She spent the first hour eating non-stop, then refused to move and went to sleep. I was really glad to get off the train at KL Sentral.

To clarify, I caught the Ekspress Rakyat, which is the train from Butterworth in Penang to Woodlands in Singapore. It was cheaper than the ETS and had seats available when I went to book. It was RM44 return from KL to Ipoh, which wasn't bad in Aircon Second Class. The train ride was lovely on the way to Ipoh, I took some awesome photos out the window on the way back to KL and realised too late that there were dining cars in the carriage behind mine. Ah well, next time!

Arriving back in KL, I caught a taxi back to the hotel and dumped my bags before heading back to Berjaya Times Square for dinner. There's a strange food court in the basement level where you buy a prepaid card to purchase your food and drinks with. The vendors take your order, swipe your card and make your food. When you're done, you return the card to the desk at the front and they refund the balance.

I had black pepper beef for dinner which wasn't half bad (wasn't half good either but that's life) and then wandered around the shops, trying to find the sunglass lady from last week. No good, there's ten stories to Berjaya Times Square and I was over it, so I had a nice massage from a lovely Chinese lady on the fourth or fifth floor and caught the monorail back to the hotel.

And here I am, in bed and bemoaning the fact that the fun is nearly over and it's back to reality soon.

Bugger.