Malaysia,
twinned.

Three KL nights at a Bukit Bintang hotel that walked to the Petronas Park in under fifteen minutes, three Langkawi nights at a beach resort the studio described as the quieter of the two on the strip. Day three of Langkawi the studio arranged a private cable car up to the SkyBridge before the daily queue. The entire mountain to ourselves at first light.

Three nights of KL, three nights of Singapore. The handover by car at the Causeway was the part we were nervous about; Aishwarya arranged it with a driver who has done that crossing daily for two decades and the whole transit took ninety minutes including immigration. Singapore was three nights at a Marina Bay hotel the Singapore partner had pre-cleared.

Short trip, four nights. The studio resisted our wanting to add Langkawi to it ('the trip is too short to do both' was the verdict, and they were right). Instead they gave us a Petaling Street food-walk on day two with a Chinese-Malay food writer who walked us through nine stalls in two hours. Best meal of the year.