Whenever I look forward to something you can guarantee it won't live up to it, or at least that was the case with the shower this morning. I got up all ready to have a nice shower upstairs, only to find that there was no water pressure. I had to use the freezing cold shower downstairs, which, like the Hong Kong shower, was basically a shower head hanging over a toilet. I managed to get clean somehow, and after putting dressings on my now weeping, gross, sunburn b...

Another entry from the 27th, but this time an altogether more realistic time of day than 1.30am. After drifting off to dust filled scent of the fan I slept through until about 10.30am, waking up to a nice powerful shower that helped wake me up, but antangonised my poor blistered sunburn. Another couple were in the hostel/homestay when I got up, Terry and Sue, from London but now pretty much living in Australia: they were in Penang to make sure they didn't lapse ...

Well I made it to Penang! As did my bag! After wandering through Singapore airport for the best part of seven hours I finally boarded at 10.20pm, sitting at the back of the plane in a window seat. I arrived seven hours before the plane took off and still got landed with the worst seat! I ended up sitting next to a little man who insisted on picking his chin for who knows what. I was annoyed because of the whole flight fiasco anyway, and then on top of that the s...