Day 1 Kuala Lumpur

Hello friends – just a quick update cause I am exhausted. Just met my first couch surfing host Koo, after my Air Asia flight.

the seats were TINY but the plane was 80% empty so an entire row for me! For what I paid I can not complain. Staff were great.

I was flipping between nervous excitement and nearly
vomiting my croissant on everyone I met. Arriving in KL was awesome. Everyone was so friendly – a girl approached me on the train and we became chums straight away. She asked if I was a model (Holly Quin: apparently 80% hotter in Kuala Lumpur) and proceeded to walk me to my next train station, paid for my ticket and then we took selfies together. Too cute.

Koo met me at the station and then showed me his home! We decided to head to the markets for a quick bite to eat – fried mushrooms, peanut pancakes and this weird half fermented sticky rice. Koo is an absolute legend and filled me in on the customs of the country, a bit of history and some personal stuff. We are definitely on the same wave length. After some market snacks we headed to the city to drink tea and look at the petronas towers, which are fucking HUGE and AWESOME. I was seriously in awe. My iPhone snap doesn’t do them justice. Big glittering monstrosities, but so much more incredible than I expected. Good on you KL you’ve been wild so far.

Xoxo Holly out