From Langkawi, we headed over to Penang. Obviously not a particularly memorable place as we can't remember what we did… Oh yeah, we went to the cinema for a quid, including popcorn and drinks - but froze to death in the air-conditioning. We did contemplate watching another movie as it was so cheap but decided that was too sad. We did some sight seeing and went to a museum, mainly because we were so hot at that point and just needed to cool down. We stayed in...

After a weeks rain, we were looking forward to some serious sunbathing action! Or at least Rach was. Just our luck that it pissed it down for the entire time we were there. We met two Geordie girls (Jen & Jo) on the ferry going over there, who we had dinner with one night and met for drinks in the only bar on the island. To Jamie's amazement, Jo liked football and had a season ticket to Newcastle so still no getting away from watching Liverpool that week!! ...

Eventually we can update you on KL. It seems like it was ages ago when we were there!We were in a great location with our hotel being at the centre of the golden triangle. Plenty of shopping and spent an afternoon up KL tower and the Petronas towers. Attempted to carry out a walking tour of the city as hosted by ourselves - and spent the day walking around in a circle. Most evenings we ate in Chinatown at food stalls where dinner was an outrageously over priced a...