Kota Kinabalu

We used the same hotel as a base in KK. This felt like being stalked....... the maids sat outside our room permanently and would make the room up before you had even checked out and take any money you left on the side assuming it was a tip before you even left it for them..... cheeky!

We made a dash away from them and headed off for a bit of shopping and no matter where a woman is in the world she will buy more shoes. When they are only £10 a pair it is pretty hard to resist. God knows where I was planning on wearing them or how I was planning to transport them, but to get out of my flip flops and trainers for 5 minutes was nice :-)

We checked out the ferry timetable so that we could go and visit one of the islands off KK the next day. The sunset down by the jetty was gorgeous :-)

We thought we would go to a local hawker place for breakfast for a change. We had had so many nice meals from these places and had eaten for less than a £1 between us in the evening markets that we thought we should give brekkie a go.
It was a chinese and I had had enough of rice and they had pictures of boiled eggs and toast so I thought I couldn't really go wrong with that......... yuck they were half boiled and served with honey toast. Even asking them to boil them for a bit longer they still came back raw. I really didn't want to offend them but I was going to gag if i ate them. Steve didn't fair so well with his fish noodle soup either!

Anyway our usual bakery was open so we picked up some raisin bread and some sugar coated garlic bread (oh yes there is sugar on everything!) and caught the boat over to one of the islands. Amazingly they were really nice. The water wasn't really clear enough so snorkel but it had a lovely beach and it was nice to chill out for a bit before our next trip.