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Street food and Cadbury's chocolate!
We arrived in Penang after a 3hr ferry from Langkawi. I'd already found a hotel online so we went to see if they had a room. Luckily, they did and boy, were we pleased! Brand new and like a proper hotel room. There was even free hot and cold drinking water on each floor! After dumping our bags, we headed out to find some street food - one of the …
The Penang Food Trail...
26 February
In budget travelling circles, we fall into the class of "flashpackers": keeping it tight but above the breadline. Our night of drunken neighbours, paper-thin walls and oversubscribed communal toilets at Old Penang Guest House was educational in terms of what constitutes authentic “backpacking”.
Déjà …
A Bit of Colonial influence of days gone by!
The flight from Phuket was good - check-in pretty straightforward. In the plane I was sitting next to a journalist who hailed from Germany but has been living and making a living in Bangkok for over 20 years. He was a most interesting man, who writes travel guides for different parts of Thailand for German and Scandinavian tourists. He spent the …
Penang!
We flew from Siem Reap to Kuala Lumpur (our last ever visit to KL!) and then took a flight from KL to Penang. We were going to get another overnight train, but the flight was cheaper and quicker.
As we drove from the airport the island looked like the green mountains in Lost with the tower blocks from Seacroft on the way into Leeds in …
Ruokaa ja kiinalaista lääketiedettä
... joten sinne lähdettiin vielä viettään iltaa noitten parin saksalaisen kaverin kanssa. Dave on siinä mielessä jännä tyyppi et kertoi olleensa pari vuotta sitten vielä tiukka huntupäinen muslimityttö kunnes kyllästy perinteisiin ja nykyisin ei voi mistään huomata "entistä elämää". Penang yllätti lyhyessä ajassa oikein positiivisesti ja siitä lento kohti Medania, ...