Wednesday 30th January 2008

I stayed awake last night and then had to wake Nikki up at 1am, with some dry toast, so that she could take her first course of the anti-biotics. After the first round of tablets she was feeling slightly better so hopefully she was on the mend. Afterwards we went to sleep and then woke up again at just after 7am to get ready and finish packing our bags. Our taxi picked us up at just after 9am and drove us to the Kuala Lumpur LCCT airport. He told us how he'd been a taxi driver for about 10 years, but dreamed of being a racing driver - and then for some reason (maybe he thought I was involved in F1 and he needed to impress me) he started driving like a maniac. Because he didn't speak very good English it was really difficult to ask him to slow down. On one such failed attempt he said 'No problem' and then turned the radio up! Thankfully, we did make it safely to the airport. On the way we passed the track where they stage the Malaysian Grand Prix. We were surprised he didn't pull off the road and put in a few laps before dropping us off.

We checked in with no problems and were soon on our flight to Krabi in Thailand. The Air Asia plane was really nice. I think it's Asia's version of EasyJet. It had big leather seats - plus the flight was only half-full so we were able to spread out without worrying about other people. When we landed, we passed through Customs and then headed straight to the information desk... we needed some accommodation! We found some we liked and were pretty soon catching the shuttle to town. On the way over we were shocked to see our first Tesco store in 9 months. Now I know they have one of them here, perhaps my Auntie Chris could come here for a (working) holiday!? We had a look around the area of our new accommodation, P. Guesthouse in Krabi Town, for a couple of hours and then stopped for some lunch (Nikki found normal porridge (poor little cow)) but it was hard for her to eat, as she still wasn't up to much, so we came back to our room to rest.

Another day, another country!