Before leaving four of us head out on friend Clive’s Broom 50, a lovely luxury motor boat.  At 9 knots he is burning 11 litres of diesel per hour per engine.  At 25 knots this edges up to 65 litres per engine! A nice trip and great company.

The passage down to Langkawi is uneventful but some nasty rainsqualls gave winds of over 30 knots.  And the rain is mega heavy offering almost zero visibility.  The South West monsoon is starting early which isn’t fair as the last one ended late.  I am nervous arriving as the app which you have to download to enter Malaysia is tricky.  For example I have to put in the serial numbers of my jabs; the AZ jab numbers have 17 digits and the numbers are tiny.  Anyway my agent checked everything and when we went the jetty to complete formalities all was done and dusted in 15 minutes.

Bicycle out, go exploring and not much has changed here.  I get a 90 day visa, no extensions here.  At the end of 90 days the weather will definitely be horrible and I really do not want to go back to Thailand.  So I will do a seven day visa run to Cambodia or Laos or Vietnam or Singapore or Philippines.  Decisions, decisions…