Tuesday 19th November
Molucca
Day! Or Melaka…or any other number of
spellings…
This is such a
fascinating BIG city. The area we were
interesting is not so big – about one square mile of historic
Chinatown/Indiatown.
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| Would a Singapore S.E.A Aquarium jellyfish be out of place?? I don't think so... |
I took some
fabulous record- breaking photos and…they don’t seem to want to download so
maybe I will never be able to show them to the world… One in particular is good
enough to win the Wildlife section of the Malaysian Rally Photo Competition,
hotly contested…if I can download it!!
There are 27
museums in the centre of Molucca. Twenty
Seven!!! We only went to two. Or three…it is a bit of a blur. The Museum of Literature, and – ummmm – one
which showed some sort of government official business. All beautifully presented.
The highlight,
I think, was a forty minute river cruise.
Just
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| I rest my case.... |
beautiful, and
great fun. And the source of my fabulous
photo which is not downloading. In a
very annoying manner…
But here it is! Huge watermonitors mating under the bridge!!!
The highlight,
I think, was the forty minute river cruise.
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| Yes this was the mating bridge!! |
By then we were
with Bill and Gail from SV Kularoo. Gail
met Bill seven weeks before setting foot on board his boat in Darwin – what a
brave chick she is!! She had never sailed
out of sight of land before…
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| Bill Pete Gail |
There are many rickshaws
to be hired in Molucca…all totally FROUFROU!!!
Our lunch at Nancy's Kitchen was delicious.
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| Top Hats (Entree) - fabulous!! |
We met some very
nice people… Christopher Wilson (20) and his partner (25) whose name has completely gone
but she was lovely – ballroom dancing dancers from Australia, about to compete
in Penang. Mostly it was a very Chinese-frequented
place. Dozens of people streaming in,
through the kitchen, up the stairs…
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| LegoLand interspersed
And delightful Leah
and Travis, from Vancouver… Travis looked so like my Michael in far-flung
WarzoneUnnamed that I turned to poor darling Pete and…burst into unseemly tears
and had to leave the room…
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