SEPTEMBER 2011 WHAT A LOVELY MONTH OF TRAVEL

Day 1  MIA-FRA-BLR
Lufthansa Business Class   Very Good
Best Meal in Bangalore:  Coconut Grove in the Central Business District. Mangalorean/Kerala/Seafood Cuisine
Dentist: Dr Jagdeesh     Excellent
Opthalmologist: Dr Jyoti          Very Good


Day 5  BLR-KUL    
Air Asia  Okay
Not a memorable visit to KL, fourth time this year.
Hair cut by Fei Wen and Mani/Pedi by GS    at A Cut Above, Bangsar. Very Good
MALACCA   Excellent
Cheng Ho Museum
Best Meal:  Ole Sayang Nyonya Restaurant


day 11   KUL-SIN
Air Asia  Okay
Singapour is very crowded and it has a great airport. 
The City is nothing extraordinary for a visitor


Day 11   SIN-CDG-LHR  Air France  Premium Voyageur  Very Good
Day 12   London St Pancras to Gare du Nord, Paris  Eurostar Premium
Very good meal served on board
Day 18   CDG-LHR   Air France  A regional airline, crowded and hardly any service
Day 19   LHR-MIA   Virgin Atlantic  Upper Class
Excellent
The Club House is fantastic, had a hair cut and shoes shined and a cooked breakfast.
Miami: Excellent Dinner at Maroosh Lebanese Rest, Coral Gables
Day 21   FLL-IAH  F  IAH-OKC  Y
Mantel Restaurant at Bricktown  Okay
Day 22   OKC-DEN Y  DEN-OMA  F
Vivace Italian Restaurant  Good
Day 30  OMA-IAH  F  and IAH-MIA  F
Superb help from Continental Elite staff on the phone when changing the flights because of delay


Has been a good month: Airline Lounges at Miami, Frankfurt, Singapour, Paris, London, Houston, Denver, Fort Lauderdale


Motto: be loyal to your airline   for me, Continental (soon to be United) in the USA and Air France in Europe.


Exceptional People on this trip:
India    None
KL       Dr Li
Malacca    Dr Tan  and Mrs Irene G
Paris    Family
Miami   Family
Among the American Indians:  Indians


Upper Class but Homeless
the Man in seat 4 D

Comfort, Curiosity and Travel: The Man in Seat 4D

The desire to travel arrived very early in life and fortunately means to travel, mainly in the mind arrived too. I can honestly say that I have been traveling since 15 March 1993.. on that day I left for Bangkok from London and then Malaysia, Singapour and Borneo. Had traveled before of course!
Since a trip with my brother E in 2001 to Chile, Bolivia and Peru and in 2002 to Singapour, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos... both South America and South East Asia looms large in my travel universe. I have visited Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar at least ten times since then. A chance meeting in 2008 was followed by five times a year visits to Malaysia and enjoy its food and the company of good people.
the travels in 2011 include: Multiple trips to Europe, Four trips to ASIA:  Malaysia in each of those visits but also Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, India and Singapour. USA is a destination where I am very much at home and in fact may have traveled within USA more than many of the locals.
So forgive me if I ask for little comfort during my travels and I have learned to extract the most comfortable journeys during my travels. Take a recent trip:
Miami to Miami in just 19 days but MIA-FRA-BLR  LH Business Class, BLR-KUL on Air Asia, KUL-SIN on Air Asia after a delightful visit to Malacca, SIN-CDG Air France Premium Voyageur, CDG-LHR  on Eurostar Premium and LHR-MIA  Virgin UpperClass. I enjoyed each of these flights, slightly less the Air Asia flights.
All journeys are educational and this one was no exception. Meeting LG, Curator of Museum Cheng Ho in Malacca at a sumptuous lunch at Ole Sayang Nyonya Resto in Malacca was one of the highlights.
So many domestic flights are in the waiting, but I look forward to be back in Miami and spend time with my sister and my good friends there..