Melaka 2023 Day3

The next day... master tour guide SE had unearthed some museum options. Our plan for the day was the maritime museums.  

Sidetrack:  There were some not-so-nice work emails expecting me to attend a call.  I had not planned to as it would mean me sitting down at the laptop - yes brought it even on holiday - while the family waited for me the whole morning.  

By the time things were sorted out, I checked and found the museum had closed and would only reopen later in the afternoon.  It didn't improve my mood although I told myself the museum-closed situation had nothing to do with my work woes.  Anyway we headed to a different museum which was open, the Customs museum.  

 

Everyone busy trading at a port. Except us

This museum was free to enter - we took our time to walk around and read signs.  This might help make history more real for the kids, though I suspect Melaka history isn't a large part of the syllabus any more.

Now what are these?

Our slow walkabout took about an hour, which brought us to lunch time.  I'd wanted to go to the Daily Fix cafe but expected a long queue.  SE again took matters in hand and encouraged me to check it out.  So we got there and... well the queue wasn't bad.  Kudos again to SE!

Food was good!  Hubby got the onde-onde cake (delightful.  No pictures coz I didn't expect it to be special).  We also had pandan pancakes (nice enough but a tad too sweet due to the coconut filling).  SE liked the ciabatta bread of the duck sandwich, though next time we should try the chicken.  The star for me was the sweet and savoury pancake - pancakes with maple syrup, caramelised banana, bacon and ham - what's there not to like??  Heaven haha.

Pandan coconut pancakes

Sweet and savoury pancakes

Then we went to walk around Jonker St again.  It's something of a tradition for these 2 to get these egg-shaped ice creams.  SE accepted one when reminded of that.

Our egg ice-creams!

Then SE prompted us to go for a river cruise.  This was sweet of her actually.... the previous trip, I was upset when I planned this activity only to find nobody interested once we got there.  So now we finally have done this - it was ok, just sat back and look left and right according to the pre-recorded guide.

All aboard!

Cruise-ing

So it was a full day again for Day 3. :)