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Finally get to San Fran around 5pm, we finally get back in the car and drive from Monterey Bay to San Fran which is only a 2 hour drive now. Further.
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Upon arrival to this little town we were met at the bus station to a towering TESCO sign! This was clearly going to be an interesting place we had not expected that Avoiding temptation to have a peak a friday prayer at the floating mosqueman with a smooth and open face looking almost like an ex monk approached us and asked if we had somewhere to stay As per usual fashion we had slipped back in to our lazy ways going with the flow so of course had not He showed us pictures in this little flip dirty flip book then revealed the name of Lavender guesthouse Now I can get quite superstitious as can Carl so it seems because immediately we agreed The last three places we stayed had Lavender in the name and all of them were incredible so we felt a pull to this man with the smooth head and jumped in a taxi which took us straight there Not before a competitor attempted to while us away with his own images which did look rather nice but A) I didn’t like the fact the man heard us agree to the other’s guesthouse B) the two guest houses are actually opposite each other in the same street but owned by different people so disliked the competitiveness even more as it made me feel very uncomfortable and C) he didn’t have a kind smooth face We chose lavender The guesthouse was Photo 81very basic the walls paper thin saturated in deep Lavender but the people were genuine and hospitable wanting to make our stay as comfortable as possible Luckily we were staying in Malaka during the week so it was quiet and peaceful the paper thin walls made of cardboard didn’t bother us.yet Malaka was beautiful There isn’t too much to do here except pace the streets watch the locals go about their business and eat Oh my goodness the food was formidable I am not in to food I eat when I am hungry unless there is apple cake or carrot cake on offer in which case I tend to stuff the sickly sweet segments in to my mouth as quick as possible before my stomach knows it’s full but here I gluttonised myself in to a coma nearly I experimented with all sorts of foods something I am not akin to as I usually stick to what looks safe I even ate fish Carl and I would sit planning our next meal whilst we were still eating the previous At the end of the road where we would eat Brunch there was a little chocolatier where they made in the chinese buddhist templethe chocolates on site and could be seen creating them through a huge glass window from inside the shop A prolonged tasting session turned out to be quite fortuitous for the shop keeper as we returned daily siphoning their stock of chocolates In a way we were lucky to be here during the week to witness the quiet lull of the days and the excited buzz at the weekends when workers from Kuala Lumpur exile from the city en mass and flock to this tiny little historic town filling up the eateries and the guesthouses noisily It’s like being in two completely different places The streets turn from quite narrow lanes to being packed with stalls selling foods and trinkets enticing local and tourist alike out to part with their hard earned cash The usually dark streets are suddenly fluorescently lit the Chinese lanterns sway gently in the warm breeze children help their mums at the stalls families and groups of young friends hit the streets laughing and consuming everything in their path forcing other to squeeze past One end of the street opens up to a stage which we had seen previously our wonderings of what it might Photo 96be used for were revealed of course; Karaoke During the week most of the shops and eateries were closed but as soon as Friday hit every shop flung open its doors welcoming customers eagerly Long walks revealed a developing town warped and constrained by the limits of the historical buildings Cafes opened if and when they pleased usually at weekends whilst car and motorbike workshops remained open all the time The Arabic chants of call-to-prayer pierced the air every few hours reminding you that although everything looks like Portugal you are in fact in the SE Asia It was hot Very hot some days to the point that we found ourselves unable to do much Walking became a struggle and it was obvious we should be nowhere else but beside a pool Unfortunately there was no pool at our little guesthouse so we just had to find one I feel bad about this next part Carl does not he clearly has no shame We had spent our evenings sitting by the river drinking beer and playing pool (I think the final score is 5/7 to me I will wipe the floor with you when I get back Photo 42to the UK Carl – you better brush up on those feeble ‘skills’ you have) and had noticed this spectacular hotel had an infinity pool on the roof So the next morning we approached the reception with swimming gear in tow and asked to use the pool Carl told them that someone in the bar last night had said it would be OK The hotel being relatively new left the receptionist unknowing so he went to the manager to find out Upon return he revealed we could use the pool for free as we had been told we could but the manager would like us to identify the barman who was clearly misinformed I back tracked making excuses for the fictional character we had implicated terrified that I had just been responsible for the sacking of someone who needed this job Carl kept his cool and gave a reasonable excuse as to why we should not and how we could have misunderstood due to language barriers The man agreed and showed us to the pool It was incredibly beautiful The first infinity pool I have ever seen and it was more amazing than photos could portray But however wonderful the Photo 47pool was my heart could not enjoy it due to the earlier predicament we had possibly caused the bar staff downstairs I decided we couldn’t go back after today The next day it was still hot so after some research on which hotels have pools we went to Holiday Inn and cheekily walked in past reception in to the lifts and up to the pool pretending to be residents to have a look With my heart pounding in my chest I couldn’t do it Carl the hero decided he 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We too were only allowed outside and were the only foreigners brave enough to take the trip outside of town The trip revealed an unexpected bonus as the King of something was there (I never did find out what something he is the King of) so it was especially busy to the point where the men’s and women’s wash rooms were open in order to cope with the number of worshippers flooding in We watched as the men removed their shoes (http://www.pixelmarsala.com/product.aspx?name=f0c9w5-shoes) and socks rolled up their sleeves as they conducted wudu (which is the preparation for prayer every Muslim must undertake before praying If a Muslim should excrete pass wind or masturbate after wudu but before prayer they must perform Photo 68the entire process again) It is a fascinating ritual designed not only to be clean but facilitates pure thought through the act of repetition and symbology Just like the Christians ‘wash away’ sins with child or adult baptism Muslims wash away impure thoughts and enter a state which readies them to focus on Allah The mosque itself is not really floating but is built on stilts in the Melaka straits giving the impression that it is floating if the tide is in We saw it when the tide was out a shame as I would love to have seen it ‘floating’ Still it was a simple structure painted white contrasting greatly with the deep blue of the sky the windows stain-glassed reflecting the colour of the sea and sky The beauty was in its simplicity On the way back in our trishaw the peddler showed us a mosque which was right next door to the floating mosque currently under construction The complex was huge and even in its incomplete state you could see how formidable it was going to be when finished Every building seemed to be under construction as was typical of the entire island due Photo 74to the fact that it was a new area hoping to bring in new financial investment shops and of course renewed wealth to Melaka It was strange to glimpse a town being built from 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