The King's Singers

12 / 07 / 2010

David

We are now on the last leg of our Far East trip, having arrived in Kuala Lumpur. We have had a wonderful week in Japan, ending with our stay in Yatsugatake. Yesterday, the day of the concert, the sun shone, and very early in the morning it was, so I was told, clear enough to catch a glimpse of Fuji-san (Mount Fuji). By the time I got up (7.45am), the haze had built up, and the mountain had disappeared from view. As a result I have not managed to see Fuji-san at all on this trip, thanks to the weather. I was hoping by now to have a wonderful photo to put in my blog, but that was not to be.

After checking in for our flight to Maylasia we said farewell to Mio Collett, who has looked after us in Japan. It has been a pleasure travelling with her, and she has looked after us extremely well, as have all our tour guides on this trip – Denny in Taiwan, Ying Li and Xue Wei in China and Chaehwan Oh in Korea. We get so used to looking after ourselves on tour, but when even the simplest instructions are written in what is to us a baffling script, it is great to have someone along to tell you where to go, and what to do next.

Tonight (Sunday) we have an evening off in KL, and Stephen is keen to lead an expedition to the night market, where we can try a few Malaysian delicacies, and make some bargain purchases. Tomorrow (Monday) we give our last concert of the trip in the Philharmonic Hall in Kuala Lumpur’s most famous landmark, the Petronas Towers. This hall was built in 1998, and was Malaysia’s first purpose built concert hall. We sang there at the end of the inaugural season in 1999, and I am looking forward to our return visit very much.