Hello! Hi! We're in Langkawi! Tecnically we're right now actually at a waterfall.
Yep, we're seeking refuge in a little shelter
We've been here a few days and we haven't filmed anything yet, because we've just been chillin' by the pool, and I dislocated my shoulder
This sounds more serious than it is
If you know her, she does it quite often, like, maybe like once every two months.
Like we were literally just dancing
I just went like this: Yeah!
And I spun her and I actually went-- and she just didn't-- you know like normally most people like, just go with it
She just stayed there like-- and it went *click*. And then she's always telling me to go swing dancing, and I'm like "maybe not"
I-I think you can--you can do it, in a non-dislocating manner. Anyway
We've hired a car for the day, actually for a couple of days
So we're just gonna drive around the island
And show you some of the highlights of the island. Because we really loved when we were here two years ago
And it's a kind of beautiful magical island. We just want you to enjoy seeing it.
*cheery music*
That was so beautiful
I really liked all the butterflies and wildlife, and I saw a really slinky shiny lizard. I did, yeah. It was really exciting.
I'm very easily pleased by shiny things, including lizards. Plus, now I'm soaking wet
including my little shorts
I actually feel quite cool, it's quite nice! I like this! It's not too hot anymore.
I, on the other hand, was in the sunshine taking a lot of photos, practicing with my like
um, filters, trying to get, you know, that like, cloudy effect over the waterfalls, keeping like-- Anyway,
I've got like a sweating upper lip now. Don't zoom in on it!! *Jessica laughs offscreen*
This is why I'm the camerawoman, I make people look nice. You make people look... their worst.
*Jessica offscreen:* Aww. I love you! I'm sorry!
I don't know why, and we're in this really beautiful gorgeous place, and she won't shut up about lenses
And also, I think we could get like the 22 mil for the EFM
so that it fits like directly on the M6...
... works really well short and far... and like it's a crime (?) lens so it'll like be really nice quality...
...and we can put the microphone on the side and then you don't have to worry about that big mic in the room.
In our little banger of a car
The guy rented it to us, like, quite late last night, and it was pretty dark
so we had no idea what it looked like until this morning. We're like, "oh!"
It's all right, it's doing quite well and the most important thing is it's got aircon
We're at the most beautiful beach I think we've both ever been to, isn't it? Yeah, definitely.
This is actually the picture
We came here a couple years ago, and it has been the photo on my laptop screen since then. It's so stunning that we're showing you.
Wow
*music*
Good morning!
So today we have come to one of the big tourist attractions in Langkawi,
which is the Oriental Village Cable Car and Skybridge.
Ooh. This isn't the exciting bit yet. No. But yeah, the cable car is really cool.
It takes 15 minutes, and it takes you all through the jungle and you can look down and see animals.
We saw some monkeys on the way here
Yeah, they were just chillin by the side of the road
But it's already getting quite hot. It's-- yeah. That's the main tune of this whole video: It's getting quite. We're really hot. It's quite hot
*J*: we might have to like, buy clothes/strip off. *C*: Apparently they are having a heatwave, it's hotter than normal.
I don't wanna be in a little glass pod on a big cable when it's getting even hotter
So let's go now. Yes, let's quickly run up. We're gonna quickly run up.
*music*
I love this! This is my favorite kind of adventure theme park ride, because you don't get turned upside down.
We managed to get a pod to ourselves. Yeah.
My gosh
We're on the second little bit. You stopped at a mid-platform
And then you continue kind of across from two peak tops to the other side and then on the other side
there's this like fantastic
Skybridge they call it. Look. Yeah.
Fun fact the top point here is
705 meters above sea level
Mmm. Does feel pretty high. It is.
And the cable is 2 kilometers long.
And very strong hopefully. Well it's not broken yet.
You ready?
So beautiful, and this breeze is very refreshing
Too refreshing.
Feeling better now. Yeah, a lot cooler in this...
touristy, "I love Langkawi" .. What's it say?
"Summer paradise"
"Langkawi Malaysia"
I do feel a bit like your child though. You're like in this glamorous
dress and people stopping to take a photo, and I just tag along with my rucksack my neck sticking out because it's really heavy. No.
No, you are my
gorgeous gorgeous wife. I wouldn't want you to look like me or dress like me or act like me. No, I wouldn't want that either.
What you're attracted to and what you want to be like don't have to be the same. No, indeed. Even if you're gay.
So yeah, we're-- we're up on the viewing platform. This is the highest point you can get to
down below is the
sky bridge
I'm slightly terrified that at some point a camera will get dropped over the edge
I know I've got some weird impulse to like throw it over. Oh I get those!
Like really weird-- I mean destroy it for no reason. Yeah.
I jumped out of the car once when I was a child because I had that strange impulse feeling.
Don't worry, it wasn't like going-- it was like going down our driveway. We had one of those
Toyota Previas with the sliding doors, and I like slid open the door
and
like jumped out onto the lawn. And my mum was like "what the hell are you doing?"
I was like "I don't know, that actually was really painful." So yeah, don't do that guys. One of my cousins did that on a motorway, whilst the car was going very fast.
I'm gonna go to the sky glide
Tip for the future if you come, don't do the nature walk. No. It's not really a nature walk. No. It's just like a little
very-- it's not even a path. It's like the side of the cliff where they built the
cable car masts and you just sort of scrabble around
Cling for dear life
*music*
So like just like about five minutes ago we were like all the way up there on these cable cars. It's so hot down here.
It was nice and breezy down there. Right, here's our car.
Oh my god
someone's like dented our car
Claudia, it's not our car.
Oh yeah.
That didn't quite feel worth it. No.
I mean, one: it was like way more expensive than I remember being last time. It was not that expensive last time.
Was it? I don't know.
Well last time we also went at like sunset, so it was a lot cooler
It was a lot quieter and was probably a weekday. Today we made the mistake of coming on a Saturday, middle of the day, during summer holidays
School children. And it was just really hot, really crowded
overpriced. When we got-- and I was like it's alright, 'cause once we get to the top we'll have amazing views and see all the scenery and- Take all your pictures.
On the sky bridge and last time we didn't do the walk. We didn't do the sky glide, which we wanted to do.
So we got up there, and they were like oh you have to get you tickets for the sky bridge and sky glide once you're up there.
We're like "Okay." Then we come down
And they're like oh yeah, it's an hour wait to go on the sky glide and the skybridge. I wanna--
and you have to pay more money to do that as well
And also everywhere you go you have to pass all the different little shops selling you stuff.
Yeah, like,
I didn't know
you could make that many keyrings about a
cable car. And they don't let you take a drink up with you, they take your bottles of water or whatever you have off you
before you get in the cable car and it's like really hot in the cable car. Even people with toddlers. Yeah.
And it's hot up there, and there's only like one or two tiny little stores selling drinks that are, again, overpriced.
It's just a really money-grabbing-- I didn't like it. I don't like this type of--
We don't know anything touristy
I'm with you
But if you want to see nature and more of Langkawi head to like the amazing little beaches. Go on a mangrove tour.
Yeah, go on the mangrove tour, that is you know, that's really nice. We went, we recommend Dev's.
Dev's Adventure Tours mangrove tour. Yeah we did that last time. It's the one we went on two years ago.
It was nice at the top, especially your Marilyn Monroe moment.
We're gonna go get some lunch. Yas. And um.
Find a beach. And find a beach, maybe have a little swim. No, definitely have a swim.
*music*
Came down to have a swim in the sea, but instead we found a crab graveyard.
They got washed ashore last night in the big storm.
I'm gonna take some of their shells
to commemorate them. I did tell Jessie that
that the waves will take the shells and the crabs back out to sea. And then they'll just get bashed up into sand.
Or another crab will find the shell and be like "ooh this is a nice shell."
The circle of life.
*man singing in Malay*
I'm not sure what we just made you watch either.
It's supposed to be a traditional malay
shadow puppetry dancing thing.
I thought they'd be music and dancing. Apparently there was just an awful lot of talking in Malay and
only like three people there actually spoke Malay it seemed. But we weren't the first to leave
so we don't feel too bad about it. Other things that happened that day
we got terrible heat stroke from going up to that sky bridge thing and not having any water and
so we've actually just spent the last three days lying in our hotel room. Claud made her own heat stroke much worse
by not following my good example of just lying in the dark, but instead went and lay in the sun.
Has not been good. There was vomiting.
I vomited
Moving on from that topic and
Headaches were the worst. Oh my god.
I found the thing that really works,
Which is you have to have a shower, and obviously not hot shower. You have to have a coldish shower
And then you don't towel off at all, you just let the water evaporate from you.
So this video was gonna be about "Oh we're gonna show you all around Langkawi and all the sights and stuff" but ah
We spent three days feeling like we're going to die. So no. Instead
we're going to show you around our beautiful hotel, and show you the pool and the beach that's here and that's really nice and
...
I hope you still like this video
*music*
Let's go in the pool!
Okay.
*music*
We are on our lovely balcony of our room. Every room here has a balcony that looks into gorgeousness.
I just want to say thank you. Everyone's been really enjoying our videos and being so kind about them.
It's been really fun making them.
It has. I really liked experimenting with things. Yeah like the stop-motion
I really liked doing that. The Penang video, that was really good. I was obsessed with um
scrapbooking and making collages
when I was younger. Younger-- two years ago. - it's good mark. I really like the way is everyone had time.
Yeah. But then we came up with an idea that maybe we should do like, a kind of
scrapbook video playlist where like maybe like once a month. We'll say
We'll go do something, go to an natural trust house, or a weekend away
And we'll make-- we'll collect all our information that we have about it
and then we'll like make a scrapbook kind of like video, like we did for George Town. Yeah and then we'd call it, like---
Oh we'll just wait for that plane to go past.
So good to have you! See?
Look at that!
*plane noises*
Has it gone? No.
Yes, we make yeah, we make the playlist
and it would be called like "Jessie and Claud's Scrapbook"
But if you think we should do that and make that, I think that'll be fun.
I just want to do more stop-motion scrapbooking stuff!
And talking about future video ideas and so forth, you've got some other exciting news haven't you? Yes.
But I I'm not allowed to share yet. Oh, okay
Yeah, so there's something exciting happening that I can only tell you about when we're back in the UK
she's pregnant
Dunno why that would affect you having to be in the UK to tell them.
Also not true. If we were a straight couple we would be so pregnant right now. Yeah, after this holiday.
But then I realize that just eludes to something else. But what I meant was we're basically having a really lovely romantic time.
Yeah, it's a maxi moon! Though our friend Andrea said if we use the word "maxi" she would defriend us.
She would defriend us. Fair enough.
Please don't do that Andrea! We love you! Don't use the term "maxi moon" then.
I can say what I like, I have heatstroke. It's not so bad now to be honest. It was pretty bad for a few days.
Claudia had a sulk as well. Any sort of hindrance to my health or physical well-being
I'm like "this really sucks!" "This is the worst thing ever!" And she's like" yeah, that's my life." I'm like "I know baby, but--
-that's your life. My life is not normally like this!" She get's a minor headache and it is
the end of the freaking world.
*J:*I have this theory, right-- *C:*It's because it is the worst thing that's ever happened to them. *J:*Yeah I have this theory
that the worst thing that's ever happened to a person is equal to the worst thing that's ever happened to another person.
Because it is the worst thing they've ever experienced. *C:*I don't think that's a theory, it's a fact. *J:*Oh.
Yeah like when my mum died, and then people were like
"Oh I'm so sorry, like, my aunt also died of cancer" or whatever like you know people
I'm like I wasn't gonna get like angry or anything because maybe that was like a really big event for them. Maybe their aunt raised them.
That's a bad example. I get-- no I get what you mean. Feelings are just feelings.
That was deep. Was it? No.
My point was, you panicked about, like, "oh god, we've not got many days left
we've got to make the most of it, and how can I do that if i'm unwell?"
But I just basically parroted back to you the thing that you say to me all the time
but that for some reason you couldn't tell yourself. I know. That's always the way isn't it, it's easier to tell someone else something than to tell yourself something.
"It's a good thing to take rests and take breaks because then you will be better tomorrow"
That's what I always say isn't it?
Rather than struggling on right now and then you can't do anything.
You always get angry with yourself when you suddenly can't have the energy to do what you wanted to do that day
I get really frustrated when my plan gets changed. Yeah, I also got really upset when I lost my notebook because it has my thoughts in it and
part of my condition is that I have a memory problem, and I have difficulty-- I think she gets away with a lot with this
"part of my condition is I have a memory problem. Part of my condition is... what else... I have to wear bows all the time"
I do! "Part of my condition is I have to wear big skirts"
Woah woahhhh
Where's it gone? Where's it gone?
That was the biggest insect ever! At least I wasn't the only one. Anyway, that's what happens when you're in the tropics.
Like, giant insects everywhere. We've got too much heatstroke for actually do too much this week, so
And it's our last week before we head back, with a few more days in (?) but other than that
It's our last week before we go back home
Yeah, that's the thing. In next week's video, the next weekly vlog that you see, we'll be returning home and seeing our babies!
It's lovely, and it's so great being away and traveling, but boy could we not do it for longer.
No. I wouldn't be able to travel for a year I don't think.
We've got quite homesick already. We've weirdly got reminiscent about driving down to Asda and doing our weekly shop.
Every day is exciting with you, genuinely.
I don't know why. I'm glad you find my conversation thrilling. I'm just so ridiculously love with you
genuinely everything you say is quite exciting to me.
Unfortunately, I do ramble on quite a lot around you
But luckily you're deaf, so you only hear every other word. I think that's why you are the one person who can cope with me.
Oh no! I will continue
to find you amazing in fifty years time.
She finds everything I say interesting because she probably second-guesses what I'm saying and what she thinks
thinks I'm saying probably way more interesting than what I'm actually saying. I have to turn it over in my brain.
We're gonna miss each other when I have to go back to work.
We've already started singing that. You might need to explain that. We sing songs to each other. Yeah. Especially "I miiiiss you"
"I miiiss you"
After we've cooled ourselves down, we'll get some shots of the hotel
Maybe we'll go-- well definitely we'll go in the sea
Should we do a room tour? Nah.
I really like them. I'm not even paid by hotels, but I would go to every hotel and be like "here's the room"
We do like watching property programs. Let's go, the sun's not even on my deck chair anymore.
Yes, I'm only wearing pants again
*old-timey music*