Early morning start

 

Underway once again--the birds assumed we had been trailing nets as these fishing boats had been!!

 

 

 

You may describe this as a tropical downpour!!!!

 

Street deco

 

 

 

 

Local coffee shop deco

 

 

The locals

 

 

 

 

Happy tourists

 

 

 

heng Ho and his Armada--the signs are Chinese caligraphy in Arabic script

 

 

 

trishaws

 

 

 

 

Shopping anyone--the phonograph still works--NB the sea cucumbers we have seen harvested over the years end up in Chinatowns around the world!!

 

 

 

 

 

Streets of Melaka