In KL, our taxi driver offered us Russian girls. They were, at about 60quid, far more expensive than the Asian girls he could send round, on a kind of sale or return basis – he wanted to send to our hotel 4 girls from which we would be able to select some if we liked, or return the whole lot free of charge, post and packaging pre-paid. Seedy man. This was my first ever taxi sollicitation. But in Thailand, Joe and I hopped onto the back of the same moped taxi – legs dangling in the air as our pilot proved that we had in fact been walking in totally the wrong direction to get to our cheap but flea-bitten hotel. And then he offered us ‘ladies’. I’m sure people who hire ladies aren’t the sort of people who economise on costs and life-expectancy by sharing mopeds, but then again, I don’t really know the market.