Visit to Butterfly Park and Forest Eco Park, Kuala Lumpur I chalked up yet another totally new experience when the Oldies paid a visit to the Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park. I’ve spotted the occasional red admiral and cabbage white in Europe, but these Malaysian guys are proper fancy pants. And some of them are huge! If it hadn’t been for the fact they were flying around in bright daylight, I might have been convinced that they were bats, not butterflies….
Visit to Chinatown and Mosques in Kuala Lumpur Life is full of surprises. After languishing on my window sill for weeks on end, I was suddenly hauled by bus and train to Vienna airport and then hauled half way across the world. When I was finally hauled out of Her Ladyship’s rucksack, I found myself in Kuala Lumpur. Crikey, that was a long haul! The first thing that hit me was a wall of heat and humidity. It’s a beautiful…
Paphos and surroundings Thankfully, once the Oldies got those mosaics out of their system, they turned their attention to exploring our surroundings. Once again, they’d hit the jackpot with the rental apartment in Paphos. A really cool pad with a large balcony overlooking a communal pool. Nice! Best of all, it was only a short walk down to Paphos proper – and the sea! This town certainly has a touch of class and I, for one, never tired of our…
A day trip to the divided city of Nicosia Aarrgh, what got into the Oldies? They were up at the crack of dawn. Well, the crack of 7 o’clock. But still. The reason soon became apparent as they boarded a bus bound for Nicosia. I was more than a little nervous when I noticed that the bus appeared to be held together with sticky tape and a prayer. But it got us there in one piece. Thank … that lady…
An outing to Ayia Napa We weren’t in Larnaca long when the Oldies started to get itchy feet. ‘Uh oh, I thought. That’s the end of beaches for me.’ But all was not lost, for they boarded a bus to Ayia Napa. Even I knew that this was a popular tourist resort. And tourists mean beaches! The Wingless Wonders, of course, having no clue where exactly they were going, alighted from the bus in the old town centre. At least…