So the flight was ok, 12 hours of fun to KL, it was a bouncy landing in KL in misty haze. An hour at KL then onward to Langkawi, which we appear to have passed going the other way several hours earlier.
A suprizingly big island, it looked small from the 747 from London at 37000 feet.
The Island is pretty and there is a slow way of life, everyone drives on our side of the road and they have 3 pin plugs. The local people are very pleasant. Lunch was massive for less than £2 each!
Ah yes well there was one problem which stopped us from sailing, although we and our bags turned up at Langkawi the sails spars and foils didn't. We were told they would come at 1400 then Jen rang the airport and they said 7pm so we live in hope.
Everyone was seriously tired but walked the 10 minutes in the hot humid weather down to the club to start the long process of registration.
The club is like a posh mansion. We sorted out the boats and Jen started registration, then we went back for some lunch. Lunch was slow but large and cheap at £2 each for more than we could eat.
After lunch, oh and I forgot this when we arrived at the less that grand but still ok continental, at 1000 we were told we couldn’t have rooms until 1400 which was a pain.
after lunch and our rooms becoming vacant we walked down to the club again, no sails so we decided to go out in RIB and look at the sailing area, its quite big, an offshore gusty wind with current against or was it across it!
The engine was massively over revving in neutral so it didn’t want to go into gear without some effort and after 10 minutes the steering failed so Scott manned the throttle and navigated while I steered from the rear- fun or what. Still we got some useful information and Ollie saw some Jelloids.
We then walked back, crossing some strange smelly gulleys, and avoiding some odd looking dogs which were mooching around vacant building sites.
Matt was told off by a European lady for skinning his flip flop across the pool and Josh is using plenty of cream to protect himself. Ollie is still recovering from a lot of flying and said he thought he had only had a 12 hour Xmas.
Scott just before went swimming in our pool said he actually quite liked living in the Shipping containers in Brasil..
We are half registered and half not, we do measurement at 1000 in the morning with a sailor from Tanzania. Then we will go sailing for the day.
The boats are brand new, 3 XS and 2 Dragon, they look pretty good. They were pre- allocated so there were no choices.
Dinner was spag bol and strange green, red or yellow rectangles of globular stuff.
Bye for now, the Team.
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