Trafficking

We're now in the Malaysian capital experiencing, among other delights, the vagaries of KL traffic. It's amazing how unpredictable the traffic flow, and the attendant behaviour of drivers, is on routes with which we regard ourselves as thoroughly familiar. Tonight a short journey to the Great Eastern building along Jalan Ampang turned out to be full of surprises. At one point a stream of traffic joined the main Ampang Road from a side road that has always been entirely deserted before. Then on the way back I found myself contending with a stream of traffic emerging from the Flamingo Hotel which I'm pretty sure did not comprise visitors to that noble hostelry. Sometimes it's refreshing to deal with new challenges. But generally not. And it wasn't this evening.