Where's Sean?

After a late start taxi downtown (use the meter) to KLCC and the iconic Petronas Towers.  It was lunchtime before I got there - half a day wasted, as we used to tell the kids!  If you want to go up to the Skybridge you have to queuing at 7.30 for the limited number of free tickets they issue every day - no way!

Then the LRT 2 stops and, once I'd got my bearings,a walk round an Indian street and then on to Merdaka Square, where KL has the, almost, tallest free standing flagpole in the world.  It's a former cricket pitch used for celebrations now and they were dismantling the stands that had been put up for the King's birthday celebrations last Saturday.

Still lunchless (& breakfastless)  (I had bought water) I walked back up to the KL Tower (335 m).  St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was closed, sadly.  Luckily there is a free shuttle from the foot of the hill to the tower entrance. I'm making a habit of high towers - Africa Tower, Carlton Centre in Jo'burg (222.5 m) the Eureka Tower in Melbourne (297.3 m), the Sky Tower in Auckland (328m).  I've been photographed up them all. Today it was a Mr (Ron) Bailey who took my picture.  

After tea and cake in the revolving restaurant (280+ m), higher than the Petronas (451.9 m but Skybridge viewing deck is 170 m), it was a walk back to KLCC for a taxi ride home. Unfortunately it was now 5 p.m. and it was stop start with more emphasis on stop.  Added to which the driver twice had to phone his base to find out where he should be going.

Old KL has virtually disappeared to be replaced by tower blocks, bank towers and multi lane highways - lots of concrete. But I'm not finding it too hot, or humid.  Wonder if I got acclimatised last year?

Back to Mont Kiara for a welcome swim in the frangipani lined pool.  (Each sunbed has an individual jacuzzi!).

Just watched Prof Hugh Pennington being interviewed in Aberdeen, about the German e-coli outbreak, on a satellite link with ABC TV international network, broadcast here in KL. the global village indeed!

Oh and Sean - well Sir Sean of course.  He and Catherine Zeta Jones shot that heist movie here a few years ago.