• Smoking is always good 😉

    August 15, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    It's early and I'm sitting on the terrace on the 37th floor smoking.
    Smoking places are a communicative place, smoking connects. It was already like that at university.

    In Vietnam, I had the wonderful encounter with the old man because of this addiction....
    First I talk to an Indonesian from Jakarta. He is here on vacation and beams with joy. A short time later, a Dutch woman joins us.
    Usual conversation: Where are you from? Where did you go? How long have you been on the road? How long are you still on the road? Liseth is traveling with her friend and arrived in KL 2 days ago, just like me.
    We find out that we are both traveling on to Malacca today.
    I ask how they get there and she says by cab. Cab????
    I studied the bus schedules yesterday and found out, that the travel times vary between 1-6 hours. With Google Maps I found out that Malacca has several bus stations and since I want to go to the center, my trip should take a good 6h. I booked my bus ticket as usual via 12goasia.com for 2 euros.
    The Dutchwoman means the trip takes only 1.5 hours.... So I open the next app, Grab. In fact, this indicates that the approximately 130 km for about 400 MYR and just under 2h to have... Converted to about 75.-. Spontaneously I ask her, if we want to share the cab and she says sure!!!
    We change the PhoneNr. and arrange the meetingpoint for 11:00 am at the lobby.

    So I do not have to go now and drive across KL to the bus station. And not spend 6h in the bus.
    That's good, because my intestine does not want quite yet and I'm pretty listless.
    So off to my room, get bathing suits and back upstairs to the 37 floor. Unexpectedly, I now have 3 hours more time and the sun is shining today. So off to the Pool!
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