Ipoh

We decided to finally leave KL and take the train to Ipoh. Ipoh has a beautiful colonial style train station and a few nice buildings and monuments in the surrounding area (including a very English cricket pitch where you could imagine the ladies being fanned whilst watching their gentlemen enjoying a very civilised game with frequent refreshment breaks).

The rest of Ipoh seems to have lots business and commerce going on but still had a slower pace than KL, although the traffic was still crazy. The local people that we met were really nice and we ended up in rather long conversations with a taxi driver (whilst we were stuck in traffic) and a Chinese gent who spoke really good English and thought that we would be able to learn to read Chinese by studying one hour per day for a year.

Two nights was plenty of time to explore Ipoh but it was a really nice detour from the normal tourist route.

Me wondering if I had done the right thing with a strawberry float, it tasted like Calpol

Park and memorial in front of the train station

A case of nice idea, very poor research! The missing figure that was hastily removed was the Prophet Muhammad

Aimee devastated that she has broken her new sunglasses after just one day