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6 June 2026
Nanzha Old Street We woke at 0630 and lazed around for a bit before I did my rehab exercises for my shoulder impingement. We decided to go out for a wander to see what could tempt us for breakfast. Nearby, we found a place that did Chinese style wraps filled with a crispy cracker, lettuce […]
5 June 2026
Arriving in Shanghai It was a great flight, with about 6h30 in the horizontal position for me across three seats. That was most of the time between the two good meals that were served. I slept for about 3h30 and lay or dozed for the remainder. We landed in Shanghai at 0615, about 30 mins […]
6 March 2026
Above: The pool at our sister hotel, Bintang Bali. After breakfast, I felt it was mandatory to go use the large pool at the sister hotel next door, Bali Bintang. While asking about pool towels, we were shown the shortcut across there. Kim had been walking out to the road to get there and finally […]
5 March 2026
Above: View from near our hotel. Surprisingly, the hotel buffet breakfast wasn’t great. The chicken was hacked up Asian style with lots of bones. I happily had the chicken porridge and soup instead. We went out to a nearby mall for a wander. I toyed with the idea of buying some cooking sachets to take […]
3 March 2026
Above: Gurney Paragon Mall incorporates the historical St Joseph Novitiate Building. It was a much-needed lazy day starting with rehab exercises in the hotel gym, a massage, cut-throat shave then lunch. I went to the blind massage shop which I had been before but being Ramadhan, there was only one masseur there who happened to […]
2 March 2026
Above: View from the hotel rooftop pool area. The Malaysia Airlines flight left Hyderabad a little earlier than the scheduled time of 0030. A meal was served soon after, followed by a bar service which included spirits and wine that were absent during the meal. We landed into Kuala Lumpur 20 mins early and I […]
1 March 2026
Above: World class Hyderabad Airport’s departure area. I fly out to Malaysia after midnight tonight (technically tomorrow morning) and have the day to kill. I have paid to use the room till 1930 today. After breakfast, I took the metro one stop north, with the intention to visit a big pharmacy where I hope to […]
28 February 2026
Hotel hassles I told the hotel to hold the idli for breakfast this morning and just give me the thosai; otherwise, it would be too much. After breakfast, I sorted out my stay for tomorrow night when I had a booking made through trip.com for the purpose of a late check-out. The hotel told me […]
27 February 2026
Charminar and Makkah Mosque The hotel breakfast, starting at 0700, consisted of the very South Indian thosai and idli, plus accompaniments. I headed out by auto-rickshaw to the Charminar (literally four minarets) in the centre of town where I caught, by pure chance, not one celebration but two! The Charminar monument has become the symbol […]
25 February 2026
Panam Nagar I repeated yesterday’s awesome breakfast before meeting Nur at 0915 on the ground floor of the hotel. We walked to a tea shack where tea was being sold, despite Ramadhan, but hidden behind canvas so that no one would then be drinking in public. That’s like Indonesia, but not Malaysia where one could […]