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Malaysia/Singapore

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

So relieved we didn’t have the snow this year that we had this time last year when we were away. Although this weather we have come home too is not great. We had a lot of rain in Malaysia as it is the end of the monsoon season. Most days it rained quite heavily for one to three hours after 3pm. I found it was very hot early in the morning till about 11am then very hot and very humid until it broke to rain and thunder and then fresher but hot. Despite the awful weather that we have here I don’t think I could work in that sort of weather. I didn’t see many horses in fields etc in either Singapore or Malaysia – didn’t even really see any fields in Singapore, we did visit a riding school in Langkawi (an island in Malaysia) but we didn’t ride mainly cause it was too hot to bother and secondly cause they charged £45 per hour and I didn’t fancy paying £45 to ride in the jungle amongst scorpions and snakes which can kill you within 10 minutes. It was a nice yard though, we had a look around and it was well laid out with an indoor stabling set up and an outdoor school – don’t suppose they would need an indoor one although if I rode there I would want an indoor school with air conditioning. Horses were mainly arabs and in very good condition, which was nice to see because generally most horses I have seen abroad are in poor condition. Singapore and Kuala Lumpa are huge cities much of which contains high rise apartments and offices. Fantastic if your into shopping as massive indoor shopping centres, great to see but not really my thing I much preferred the Tea Plantations in the Cameron Highlands and the Mangrove swamps in Langkawi where we saw pretty coral fish, spitting archer fish, walking fish, eagles and kites, swimming monkeys, bright coloured crabs, fruit bats and we came across a poisonous snake sleeping in a tree. During the last week I had had a slight sore throat which delevolped into a throat infection, on the last night I felt really ill and thought I should probably try to get something to take. We found a clinic at 11.30pm the doctor saw me straight away (and he spoke english – rare in the uk) he perscribed me antibiotics, cough syrup, throat sweets and Ibuprofen which were all given to me at the clinic. I paid £22 and the whole thing took 10 minutes – and people say Britain is great for its health service.

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