They reckon that nearly 20% of Borneo is still "undiscovered". In 2000, on one of their most popular tourist destination, Mount Kinabalu, they found 20 new species of plants. With that in mind, we booked into the Shangri La Rasa Ria resort - a 400 bedroom, Euro style, self-contained resort in the north of Sabah, Borneo.
Quite a come-down from our 2weeks at Sibu living in a beach hut. Here, large King size beds, air-con, 6 restaurants (2 need shirt and slacks!), 5 swimming pools and a 60acre nature reserve.
To be honest, its' not our cup of tea (of which they have at least a dozen varieties). But for the boys' they have the pool and all the other bits that come with this sort of place.
1st day spent at the pool and waving a little yellow flag to attract the attention of the staff to bring us more drinks as we can't be arsed to get up!
Only other news is Marie has an interview on the week we get back to Denmark. I on the other hand, have a telephone interview in Borneo. Global village! British person in Borneo having a telephone interview with a Danish company! It's a crazy postmodern world we live in!
Friday, 14 September 2007
Being blogged by the misses...things we missed off...
This one's a list. The reason being it's a reminder for us...
- Ecca in Brisbane - like a trade show but open to the public for which they get charged the pleasure to buy all the give-aways that Big Brands need to use as the promotional item is no longer for sale, but the place is huge, right in the centre of town and is popular as hell.
- get drunk in Brisbane Valley and then lose your drinking buddies and forget where you're living, thankfully some navigation courses got me back
- eating steak at Brekky Creek - a Queensland institution and a very civilised way to begin a days' boozin with the main man, Declan
- making a wedding video - yes, Marie's sister got married in Sept so we made a small video on our journey which they played (to great applause) at the wedding. There's a very funny bit of Seba and Oscar surfing on the beach at Noosa which then turns into a comical fight - one for the family only
- Marie touched a snake (and I don't mean the one in my trousers, fenarr) - another phobia mildly conquered, she touched a 3m python at Ecca. Even Seba and Oscar had a feel
- Marie snorkeled - not really liking the head under position (and I don't mean the .....), she had a go at snorkeling and got into the coral and small marine life. Helps being on a very small Malaysian island in the warm South China Sea
- Seba and Oscar swimming and head under the water - both wanting to follow in their Dad's footsteps are now throwing their armbands away with gay abandon and diving into water. They think its' great but for Marie and myself we never take our eyes' off them
- Blond and blue eyes - don't visit Asia! - Chinese custom dictates that small blond haired children are a good omen so Oscar (who's hair is now blond from all the sun) is constantly being patted on the head. I'm thinking we could sell some of his hair on Chinese Ebay!
- pissed on the head by a lizard - one of the joys of sleeping on an island in a beach hut, woken up at 2am with lizard poo and pee on me. One of us laughed and the other one didn't!
- sandflies - silent killers - nothing stops these blighters!
- seeing Sting-Rays on my diving course - crikey! why would you ever won't to touch them...
- super-strength Mohittos - you only have the one night on those buggers! but I did manage to complete my final dive course! did I mention the 94% score on the exam?
- Ecca in Brisbane - like a trade show but open to the public for which they get charged the pleasure to buy all the give-aways that Big Brands need to use as the promotional item is no longer for sale, but the place is huge, right in the centre of town and is popular as hell.
- get drunk in Brisbane Valley and then lose your drinking buddies and forget where you're living, thankfully some navigation courses got me back
- eating steak at Brekky Creek - a Queensland institution and a very civilised way to begin a days' boozin with the main man, Declan
- making a wedding video - yes, Marie's sister got married in Sept so we made a small video on our journey which they played (to great applause) at the wedding. There's a very funny bit of Seba and Oscar surfing on the beach at Noosa which then turns into a comical fight - one for the family only
- Marie touched a snake (and I don't mean the one in my trousers, fenarr) - another phobia mildly conquered, she touched a 3m python at Ecca. Even Seba and Oscar had a feel
- Marie snorkeled - not really liking the head under position (and I don't mean the .....), she had a go at snorkeling and got into the coral and small marine life. Helps being on a very small Malaysian island in the warm South China Sea
- Seba and Oscar swimming and head under the water - both wanting to follow in their Dad's footsteps are now throwing their armbands away with gay abandon and diving into water. They think its' great but for Marie and myself we never take our eyes' off them
- Blond and blue eyes - don't visit Asia! - Chinese custom dictates that small blond haired children are a good omen so Oscar (who's hair is now blond from all the sun) is constantly being patted on the head. I'm thinking we could sell some of his hair on Chinese Ebay!
- pissed on the head by a lizard - one of the joys of sleeping on an island in a beach hut, woken up at 2am with lizard poo and pee on me. One of us laughed and the other one didn't!
- sandflies - silent killers - nothing stops these blighters!
- seeing Sting-Rays on my diving course - crikey! why would you ever won't to touch them...
- super-strength Mohittos - you only have the one night on those buggers! but I did manage to complete my final dive course! did I mention the 94% score on the exam?
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