October 21st - October 23rd So we left our humble accommodation and found our way to the bus station. Due to Declan's dithering we missed the early bus and had to wait 3 hours in a sweaty bus station, full of nutters. Mel spent the time productively swotting up on Australia while Declan decided to start writing the 'next Harry Potter'. Eight chapters in, it's a real page turner. J We got on the bus and headed to the Cameron Highlands. The trip was short but ...

October 18th-October 20th We moved on, back to this travelling malarkey, after 6 days in the same place. We sadly said goodbye to Penang Island and in particular a restaurant that served real bacon. Actual bacon, like the stuff you have, not the shrivelled streaky stuff they've been trying to peddle to us. Like we mentioned before we were trying to make this journey without the use of a travel operator. This is for two reasons, the first being the travel opera...

October 12th- October 18th We left Langkawi by ferry and headed 2 hours down the coast to another island called Penang. Our time on Penang is the longest we have stopped anywhere so far! That is because we decided we were sick of just island hopping and we thought we would explore a city spot and a beach spot in the same place. Penang is a very interesting place. The main town, Georgetown, is host to a multitude of people. Chinese, Malay and Indian people mak...

October 9th-October 12th So we awake at the ungodly hour of 7:00am, we're people who lie in now ha! We set off on our journey to Malaysia. We started off in a minivan, then on a boat, then in a minivan, then on a boat, then in a minivan. We then got dropped off in the middle of nowhere, and then hustled into another minivan. He drove for a while thinking he was Schumacher down country roads; we then stopped off again and were put into a taxi. We finally ended ...