Paddy's Day in KL

We got to Kuala Lumpur city on Paddy's Day in the recovery position from the music festival in Sepang. As we said, we had met a really sound bunch of people at from the festival (Kiwis, Americans and Australians), some of whom were going partying in KL for Paddy's Day. We were wrecked tired but we had to do our country proud so we dressed in our finest emerald tack and went out to impress our new friends with our craic, ceol and banter.

We went to two Irish bars, the first one was pretend Irish and had a special deal on Guinness to mark the occasion so we stayed for a few social ones with our new friends Payden and Chris. Payden is a cool american guy who lives in Australia and is only 23 but so well travelled you'd think he was much older. He even lived in Ireland for a while! Chris is a lovely German chap with some cool tattoos and great stories from his own travels also. He is also living in Australia at the moment.

We moved on to a real Irish bar after a while (by real, we mean owned by an Irish ex-pat who knew his audience and overpriced all the beers). We managed to blag a few free drinks from them though and chatted with a few Irish peeps throughout the night. We met a young Cork girl who was travelling the world on her own and an older man from Ballyfermot who had moved to Sydney when he was 18. He was with his two Ozzie sons, a nice blonde English lady, and a 40 year old Malay woman who he claimed to be in love with after his holiday romance. I'd say he met her in a massage bar and treated her to a few nice meals for the week. The group looked like something from a Jeremy Kyle show but they were generally sound enough.

Jeremy Kyle would do quite well here actually as later that night we met up with our hilarious new Kiwi friends from the festival in a bar where Brian was charmed by two he-shes who took a shine to him and were petting him all night!

I had to tell Catherine and the lads from NZ that these 'girls' were packing a couple of half rings of white pudding down their jocks. The lads were shocked! I should have said nothing and left them to find out later for themselves. The girls were great craic (sorry wrong use of terminology) - they kept chasing me around and one was waiting for me outside the jacks! The other tried to stealth grind me on the dance floor! It felt like someone just wheeled a postman's bike into me. Gas, thought that stuff would only be in store for us in Thailand.

Overall a great Paddy's Day in Asia with some lovely new acquaintances (and we don't just mean the lady boys) :)