a morning at the docks – pic not edited!
The morning was a typical for a Martin-departure-day, I had calculated waking up at 6:15 to get ready and pack the last few things and bring them to Upper Deck to be ready at B-Deck at 7h. My inner alarm said, 4:50 is better to wake up. So, everything was done even earlier, I had finished breakfast at 7:10 and just looked around for the captain to say good-bye.
I found him after 2 times going up and down with the lift and checking some offices and then it was about to leave the ship.
This time, they used the ship’s crane and I was pretty ok with that, because the gangway is hard enough to go without bags or bike.
The chief security officer came down with me to help to get my stuff from the crane hook and take some photos for me and selfies for him and then I drove along the docks for 4km. So, I had some time to get used to going on the left side…
the pole normally would point upwards, a upload failure…and the picture should be later!
My route planner suggested something else than I remembered from yesterday and so I came to another gate. First the officer wanted to send me back to the right one, but when I showed him the stamp in my passport, he reluctantly let me pass. So my bags were not checked and I had no need to put them off for an x-ray.
When I had checked the route on the map, I had been a bit nervous, because the only street going from the port to the city had the name express (high)way and I was not sure if this is too much to go there by bike. But it was a normal street and easy enough to continue my training of going on the wrong side.
After 20km, I had to make the first bends and then it was not so hard as I had imagined (or remembered from Sydney), I just had to memorize which is my lane.
Sometimes, there was the motor cycle lane, with only some motorcycles, because most preferred to go on the regular road, so it was very comfortable.
After 45km, I arrived at Faye’s house, a gated community, where I had to show my passport, was registered and Faye got a call from the security officer that a visitor is here.
Faye and Lulu came down and slowly I realized that the next step was down, I had reached South-East Asia and meeting them again had come true ?
The apartment of Faye is modern as the whole building complex, so, not too big, but she had prepared an own room for me, everything was perfect.
Then, my phone had to make an extra shift to digest what came in through Wi-Fi after 11 days offline and I started answering to Visa agency and other urgent emails.
Then, we went out for food, a exploring tour in a supermarket, ice-cream, some errands for me and touristic agenda.
Kuala Lumpur’s “old town” is not too old, we came to independence square (a former polo ground) with a very high flagstaff.
And then to one of those new areas and iconic buildings like the Petronas towers. Many tourists struggle to take similar iconic photos and some traders try to sell extra lenses that would help to get people and towers on one picture. Faye and Lulu solved the problem with vertical panoramas.
We took a walk around the park
oh, the right tower is suddenly broken?!
and on the way back,
the lightened fountains started, at that time without music but the difference is invisible on a photo.
Now, I try to post 2 blog entries every day, to catch up and also some you tube videos. We’ll see!