Kampung Masjid Lama

Up early and a grab to the train station. As we went to get the 8.30am train the lady checking tickets pointed out that I had bought tickets from JB Sentral but I was standing in KL sentral. Ooops!

I managed to get tickets for the right train and use credit from cancelled trains but… the new train wasn’t until 12.19pm. A 4 hour wait. After establishing there was no air conditioned was room and no comfortable seats, we sat on the massage chairs without the massage function.

Eventually the heat got too much and we found uncomfortable seats under a fan. I passed the time doing some work. Eventually the call for a train came. What an unusual procedure. We scanned through a ticket barrier and sat in a waiting area, a few metres from where we’d been waiting for 4 hours. I looked around wondering where we would board. After a while, a lady held up a sign saying‘follow me’ so we followed her, through the station, down an escalator, to another ticket gate. Here she left us and we had to find the platform, down escalators. Eventually we got there. The train came and we boarded easily.

It took about 2.5 hours to get to Gemas where we had to change trains. We arrived in Johor Batu at 7.45pm. After an almighty faff and argument with grab and the driver , we got to our hotel.

We checked in and had dinner (well, Simon had 2 dinners because I thought it tasted dreadful) before bed.Read more