Tuesday 14th July 2009
Day 17
A couple of airport devices I've been really impressed with. Firstly Emirates now offer mobile phone access while you're in flight. It was only a matter of time I suppose but it was the first time I'd seen this offering during our trip from Christchurch to Melbourne. The second was the Dyson Airblade, a fantastic instant hand dryer facility in the gents of airports. Dyson - you've done it again!
Fling long haul with Air Asia filled us with a little anxiety, especially as we'd recently seen them running a reality competition to find a pilot. However, we needn't have been anxious, the flight to KL and from KL to Kota Kinabalu was fine and the plane was so new it smelt like a new car.
Arriving in Kota Kinabalu was a bit of a shell shock having come from temperatures as low as minus 14 we were now in a location with an average temp of around 30 in July and it was extremely humid. Howver, we took it pretty easy checking into a nice little hostel and checking out the night markets which were full of amazing foods.
I'd forgotten how into their sports the Malaysians are. Every other person seemed to be wearing a bloody Man Utd shirt and the sports betting shop was the busiest in town. Managed to catch a bit of boxing from Vegas on the TV in a busy KK cafe with a massive crowd watching the fight with betting slip clutched in hand.
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