Back on the blog...:) Cassie and I took the 9am train to KL...which didn't actually leave until 10am (I wasn't in Cassie's good books as she could have had an extra hours sleep, but she was kept happy with a Starbucks coffee)! The journey went really quick as usual these days I slept and looked at the scenery. We arrived at about 1pm, so took a walk around China town in the afternoon and grabbed some food. We stayed in a hostel called Reggae Mansion. This p...

The hostel we booked is called Daniels Lodge and it is right in the centre of the town. It's only 15 ringgit per night ($4.80/£3.20) with powerful hot showers too! It is a simple place, you walk up some steps and it's just one long room with beds lined up but it's all good fun and the beds are fairly comfortable too. Dinner was a yummy, big, filling curry - Cassie and I shared a naan & dips, a veg dish, a chicken dish, 2 tea tariks and a Chinese-style c...

How to describe Penang...I'm not so sure. It did not feel like I was in Asia as it's much more modern and developed here; no tuktuks (just ....), no people trying to sell you fruit or insects on the side of the road, hardly any scooters about, no wooden huts on stilts where the locals lived, no kids running around the streets...I could go on. The place was very developed with big European looking buildings, parks, a botanical garden and very posh hotels (eve...

So the transport from Koh Lanta to Langkawi (an island West of Thailand/Malaysia mainland) was long but easy going. We left at 8am and arrived about 6pm including the 1 hour time difference. We travelled on a 14 seater minivan that took the ferry across to the mainland where we then waited for over half an hour showing our tickets about 10 times to prove that we had paid for our ticket to Langkawi as we had 13 people and only 12 seats - overbooked, ops! Even...