
Ok, so it turns out that when you ring to reconfirm your flight booking, they ask if you want a window seat. So much for playing the odds!
I had the most chatty chemist yesterday. I just wanted to pick up my malaria medication and instead, I get a 1 hour course in mosquito-borne disease prevention as well as a review of the best insect repellants on the market, how to prevent hepatitis and traveller's diarrhoea. To top it all off, he's the second health professional to warn me against sleeping with Malaysian prostitutes! I bet you they don't give that sage advice to 40 year old women.
Travel guides aren't much better at times. My trusty Lonely Planet warned me that some of the snakes in Malaysia are very dangerous and that I shouldn't try to catch any of them! Well, there go my plans for Thursday night... It also told me that they have absolutely massive spiders there, particularly in the Cameron Highlands, but I take great comfort in the fact that I'm leaving 8 of the 10 most deadly behind.
Before I go though, in true Gosh tradition, I'm going to climb a mountain. This time it's the Glasshouse Mountain, Tibrogargan. Maybe I'll find a photo for you. I'll definitely take some of the view from up there. I love to climb mountains, such a great feeling, but I'm always put to shame by my friend Lee, a regular moutain goat, and the fact that somewhere along the line I developed an irrational fear of heights. I never used to have it, I know it's stupid and I conquer it each time I climb. No excuses.
Josh! xoxo