After spending a lovely four days in the very Dutch tourist town of Melaka we jumped on a bus to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city. Still buzzing from Singapore, I was hopeful that K.L. wouldn’t be too much of a let down — surely it couldn’t be as good as Singapore, could it?

It blooming is! Another great Asian tiger and I love it. Whilst it’s technically probable that I’m still recovering from our Indian experience and life in a mini-monastery, I’ve got to note that since leaving that environment, everything–really, everything–seems spectacular and I am one grateful chappy. Kuala Lumpur’s got a similar vibe to Singapore, although I gather with less rules. The Petronas Twin Towers are now firmly in the number one spot as my favourite building(s) in the world.

Bad points? The city’s public transport system sucks a little bit. The trains, buses and monorails are run by different companies who must have refused to sit at the same planning table because even at ‘interchange’ stations, the walking distances between the lines are unreasonably long for a city of this size. Hence why the roads are clogged most of the day, although I must say that road pollution wasn’t particularly noticeable here.

Like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur is–sorry Mum–easily a city in which I could live and work. When we left London some seventeen months ago, I named this blog ‘Escape the City’. After falling in love with Cape Town, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, I’m already starting to wonder whether I picked a bad title. Maybe it should have been ‘Escape London City’ or even ‘Escape to a smaller, more manageable human-sized city”.

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