Tuesday 24 November 2015

Day 374: Back in the big city

We took things easy in the morning, making some toast for breakfast and then packing up. We had kept the business card given to us by the cab driver who drove us out to Bako National Park and yesterday we arranged for him to pick us up this morning to take us back to Kuching. It was raining when he arrived at about 11am and still raining when we drove slowly past a car sitting upside-down in a ditch beside the road.

The journey back to Kuching was short - less than an hour - but still took a bit longer than it should have due to an accident on a bridge on the city's outskirts. Back at the Nova Hotel, we were given our old room, where we dumped our stuff and then headed out to McDonald's for lunch. We then visited a few malls trying to find some insect repellent, as we're all out. Back in the room, we all had showers and I called HSBC, who gave us the wonderful and long-awaited news that our buy-to-let mortgage had been approved.





For dinner we went back to our alley-way 'restaurant, which we now know is called Tai Pan Food Corner – apparently named for the Tai Pan Hotel, which forms one side of the alley. We got through six satay sticks, two plates of rice noodles, a bowl of wonton noodles, four beers and two cokes for the princely sum of US$11.



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