{"id":106,"date":"2016-01-14T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/?p=106"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:03:36","slug":"straits-quay-and-its-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Straits Quay and its marina"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I wait for some legal and financial stuff to clear relating to\u00a0the boat, I popped over to the Straits Quay Marina complex, as it is recommended by many. It looks to me like its main purpose is to provide a focus for a huge property\/mall development. Exactly the kind of thing I hate. But to be fair, it was exactly what a visiting yachtie might want, a safe marina, good washrooms, laundry services etc. Plus plenty of eateries in a very flashy mall. No riff raff here thank you. John the manager seems like a very helpful person, and we may well move Wanderlust here later in the year, as it will be a lot more convenient than Batu Uban<\/p>\n

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Straits Quay Marina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Looking back towards Georgetown, shows how much high rise development there is here<\/p>\n

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Georgetown in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And outside the marina development, the building continues as if 2008 never happened here.<\/p>\n

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My biggest shock was checking out the Tesco, I had expected an express small version in the mall, not a mega super hyper plus store, this was at least, if not bigger, than any I had seen in the UK.<\/p>\n

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Funny how the fish are all lined up, as if in a race<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The thing I’m loving about this trip is how Malaysia is reminding me of how fast Asia is\/has moved. Things like Tesco seem so British to me, but possibly one day soon, their UK operation might just be a small outpost for them. And this is just what I get from a relatively small Asian country. Goodness know what it must be like in Shanghai. When I get home I must checkout if the OU are still running the course on cities, Im beginning to realise\u00a0just how victorian ours are.<\/p>\n

On a final note for the day, here are some spices you can buy at the shop next to the marina office<\/p>\n

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Easy on the paprika Kathy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow I move hotel to be nearer the boat, I’m going to\u00a0a more remote part of the island, \u00a0but will be spending long days on the boat now getting to understand how she is configured, and also preparing her for storage and the work that will be done on her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I wait for some legal and financial stuff to clear relating to\u00a0the boat, I popped over to the Straits Quay Marina complex, as it is recommended by many. It looks to me like its main purpose is to provide a focus for a huge property\/mall development. Exactly the kind of thing I hate. But … Continue reading “Straits Quay and its marina”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}