Next Holiday We set out on 27 May and after a short sojourn in Kuching say, for an hour or two we arrive in Kuala Lumpur later that day. It will be in the evening. I think we will be staying at the Concorde. The point of staying in KL was to get a mid-season air fare instead of a peak season one. My initial plan was to take the bus to Trengannu (such a romantic name) then go back to KL for the flight to London but I don’t think I will get away with it because you got to be in KL for the shopping. As a non-shopping person I would like to take a bus to Genting Highlands, Cameron Highlands, and Fraser’s Hill. I have been to KL so many time without going to any of these places. In KL I want to get some DVD’s for my new DVD player. After KL we fly to London. We stay at Heathrow overnight and venture out to my favourite restaurant, a Balti takeaway near the Ibis Hotel on the Bristol Road. I should try to work up an appetite for this. Balti is a particular style of curry made in Birmingham by people from Kashmir. The next day we catch the flight to our favourite holiday destination the nest day. Nice, South of France. We managed to get the time share again in Rue Masena, near the beach. I was not really planning to swim, but you never know. A bit of Mediteranean experience to add to a lot of Indian Ocean experience. What do we do when we get there. At least a day for looking around Nice. There is the Matisse museum there. We need to walk through the old town and round to the old port and look for a bouillebasse (fish soup). We need to have another day at Ventimillia in Italy, about an hour along the coast by train. I have been to Antibes before but the Picasso museum was closed. There is the perfume factory at Grasse. We went to St Tropez last time and it is quite a long way from Nice. We have been to Monaco before, so not again. However, never been to Villefranche-Sur-Mer. Only been through it on the train and it looks very nice so it might be worth a day. Menton we have spent a good day at. We will find another seaside town, maybe Eze, and that will take care of six days. In Italy I want to get an Italian table cloth as a souvenir and in France I want to get a French table cloth. I also want to try the pink wine from the region. After that back to the UK and up to Stratford where we will stay at Walton Hall, just out of Wellesbourne four miles south of Stratford. We have stayed at Walton Hall many times we knew it well. We are here for a family reunion. But first we must go to Scotland for another family reunion and I may visit the Roslin chapel mentioned earler in relation to the DaVinci Code. Shopping in the UK will only be for clothes. After Stratford we stay a week at Cheltenham. Cheltenham is a “spa” town where people used to come to take the waters. It used to be a town where army officers and senior civil servant retired. Now they can’t afford to retire here. Whereas Leamington is another “spa” town, it looks a bit shabby. Cheltenham is not at all shabby. Its Georgian terraces are in pristine condition. As for what to do there I haven’t a clue. It has shops. A Marks & Spencer’s. If we have wheels we are with range of the Cotswold villages where we could go for pub lunches if it is not raining. After 3 weeks in the UK it will be back to London airport to catch the flight to KL. This time we only change aeroplanes in KL and go on to Kuching where we will stay for three nights. Everybody who has been to Kuching that I have met seems to have enjoyed it. It is a lot less stressful to break the return journey from the UK to recover from jet lag before we return to Australia and work.