Sunday 19 May 2013 Another adventure on the horizon...... We are certainly holiday 'junkies' to say the least! After topping ourselves with our favourite tipple at Gatwick VIP lounge, we boarded our Emirates flight to Dubai from Gatwick North terminal. A seven hour flight later we landed at Dubai airport and made our way to the Marharba VIP lounge, for....... yes......more drinks! After a three hour wait, sipping Southern Comfort and Lemonade, we made our way to board our flight to Male, Maldives Monday 20 May 2013 The plane landed at Male, Maldives four hours later. A swift shuffle through immigration, recovering our luggage, we met our escort and driven to another VIP lounge to await our seaplane transfer to our final destination, Kuredu Island and Spa Memories of one of my favourite TV series comes flooding through....... "Da plane!" "Da plane!" Shrieks Tattoo Those of my age group will know this quote is from "Fantasy Island! And indeed......we were being flown to our Fantasy Island.l The flight journey to Kuredu Island was all of forty five minutes When we landed we were swamped by the native staff, who, with beaming smiles, welcomed us onto the Island. We were also welcomed by musicians on drums and singers whilst being ushered towards the bar and our initial free drinks So far so good....the Maldivians seem to be a jolly friendly lot........... but alas, no Tattoo

Saturday 23rd February After an early swim in our private pool, we made our way to the restaurant for our first breakfast, actually, brunch as it was ten twenty We ordered a chauffeur driven car for our trip to Jambalaya beach I wasn't impressed with the beach, however......it was awashed with litter of all sorts (empty cans, bottles, plastics etc) The sea was rough and vast. I googled on my iPad to confirm the name. Why? The natives were either not understanding us or didn't know..... "Is this a sea or an ocean? What is it called?" "Yes......the Shea" This was all I could muster, from our driver, to the owner of the bar on the beach, to the waiter serving us No........ I didn't spell sea incorrectly........the natives have a problem pronouncing 'S' It's a case of....... "I shaw Shea shore .......... You get the gist! I googled the beach and hey presto! Timor sea! There you go!

Friday 22nd February Arrived safely in Bali - Mother Nature has just opened her water gate just after we got to swim in our private pool and eaten our super We were given a large umbrella to use as the rain refused to stop. We walk the short walk to our villa and played scrabble on my iPad

On arrival at the Shangri-La hotel DOS man made reservation for the restaurant and also books a chauffeur driven car "Please......... Came a voice behind, with outstretched hand We release our hold on our luggage and he promptly begins to leads us to the lift We were housed on the seventh floor of a twenty eighth floor building and immediately loved it on first inspection Looking out of the window, the petronas twin towers dazzled in front of my view We had an hour to shower and change into suitable attire, with five minutes to spare before being driven to the spectacular 'Atmosphere 360' as it is known by Once again, we were ushered into a super fast lift, taking us past 283metres high over ( all in all, the building stood approximately 400metres high

He rolls out cuisines of all sorts and we were quickly sold to this amazing 360 revolving restaurant

We touched down on Kuala Lumpur airport tarmac as night fell We walked through arrival to be quickly met by our chauffeur and our limousine "Welcome to Kuala Lumpur" beamed our Malaysian chauffeur "Thank you" we replied in unison The limousine has WFi and bubbly and a commentary of Kuala Lumpur by the chauffeur Love the WiFi! Love the bubbly! Forget about the commentary! In my world, I would replace his mouth with a close zip! Malaysian chauffeur is still chatting..........whilst driving over a highway suspension bridge Blah! Blah! Blah! Me think he should.......shhhhhhhhh while I wet my lips with more bubbly Our chauffeur chatted all the way from the airport to our hotel, the Shangri-La from rabbiting on about.......... "Malaysia is a Muslim country but we drink 'Beer' served in the teapot" That made DOS man and I cringe with laughter "Do you recommend any restaurant nearby.......begins DOS man " Yes...... The revolving restaurant....... He begins My ears prick up as he continues .......is a nice place to eat"

Thursday 21 February....we waved goodbye to our good friends in Cambodia and boarded our plane for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia DOS man had pre-ordered seafood for us and it was nice being served a good fifteen minutes before any of the other passengers I swiftly ordered white wine to follow DOS man and I played scrabbled on my iPad to while away the time For the second time in my life, I saw a plane flying at the speed of light just below us........it was so fast that by the time I screeched out to DOS man it was gone! I was informed that it sped so fast was because the speed was of that plane and our plane together It reminded me of a matchstick box airplane.......the colour was visible to me, red and white.....a Malaysian airline airplane