Malaysia

Day 1 So we arrived in Kuala Lumpur bright and early after a reasonably uneventful overnight flight from Melbourne. After navigating the necessary immigration and customs desks, we collected our bags and headed for KL city. The express train to Kuala Lumpur central station was an easy 30 minute trip. Getting ripped off by our taxi driver at the station was also “easy”. Who would have thought two sleep deprived foreign tourists who had no idea how much things should cost would have been easy targets… Must have been the sleep glazed look in our eyes. ...

So Laura and I will be heading off to Turkey in a few weeks. While Laura has been to Turkey twice previously, this will put a tick in the “done” column on my travel bucket list. The more people we talk to about Turkey, the better it sounds - I haven’t met anyone yet with a bad story, and actually all the stories I have heard sound fantastic. It will be a reasonably whirlwind trip this time, about 11 days in total made up of 2 days in Kuala Lumpur on the way over, then the rest of our time in Turkey being mainly concentrated in Istanbul with an overnight trip to Gallipoli (to see the ANZAC war memorials and battle fields) and historic Troy. ...