Apologies for the late entry of this blog but I’m sure you appreciate the reasons. We’re now back in the UK to send Neil’s mum off on her final journey so we took a little time out to put together this entry.

This blog entry covers our stay in KL from 5th Jan to our unexpected return to the UK on 15th Jan.

We came to KL last year and stayed with friends, Les and Maya. We did a lot of the sights together, some on our own, but sadly we lost most of our pics due to a fault with the camera.

We have returned to see them both again and to capture just a few of the tourist pics that we lost. They now have a pleasant house in a quiet suburb of KL with easy access to taxis and public transport for the short journey into town.

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The highlight of our stay was a night out with one of the hash clubs (running & social clubs which are worldwide although started in the 1930s in KL, nothing to do with herbs….) that they belong to for a New Year Dinner entitled Shanghai Nights. It was a blast!!

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Les was asked to play the prestigious part of Cai Shen, The Chinese God of Prosperity. He is a traditional part of the Chinese New year and Les was extremely proud of being given such a prestigious role especially as the Hash is predominantly Chinese.

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The food was a 9 course banquet and there was free flow beer, red wine and very good quality whisky, a Chinese favourite. The meal was interspersed with a range of cabaret performed by the Hashers themselves; it was truly a fabulous experience that was finished off with plenty of dancing “like your dad” to endless party favourites.

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We also had some time with Chen and Florent who we met on Langkawi Island over Christmas. We had a chinese lunch chosen by Chen and then went on together to the Petronas Twin Towers to take the some of the pics that we lost last year.

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It’s been good to get be back in the UK despite the cold damp weather, bbrrrrr we are looking forward to returning to 30 degrees. It has been a great to catch up with the kids, especially for Cheryl who only managed to spend around 36 hours with Alex during the whole of last year. It was also good to meet Leanne’s new man of several months which proved impossible before we left last year. Paul & co continue to look after the house and Bruno looked enormous as he had grown an oversized “arctic fur suit” to fend off the bitter winter…..he’s going to shed an awful lot of hair when the spring arrives!!