To be honest, I said 5-6 years because I can't see my having the opportunity to travel to South East Asia for a very long time. For the forseeable future, leisure travel is likely to be split between Spain and Japan, where I have family.

Unless I can magically pick up a cheap ticket to NRT with Malaysia Air (MrLapLap's favoured airline for travel in Y) I can't envision it happening (said S.O.'s health deteriorates noticeably in hot humid countries).

So far no personal recs for Durian in London. Perhaps I should try my luck in Tokyo... but again, might not be for a while...


(The only person immediately linked to me who has ever tried the stuff was MrLapLap's grandfather who spent a rather long period having to subsist on it. Apparantly, it ended up seeping out of his pores - 'oily', 'smelly' and 'goo' were the terms used to describe this phenomenon.)