Day 182- Yet again we had to be up really early for our bus and by 7am we were sitting comfortably and waiting for departure. The journey was good and we arrived onto Penang Island by around midday. From here we had to catch a bus to Georgetown which is where we were staying. However the bus dropped us off at the side of a busy highway where we were hassled by taxi drivers. We managed to spot what looked like could be a bus station opposite so we hurried across t...

Day 178 - We woke up at 5am as Lloyd had discovered BEDBUGS (a travellers worst nightmare). We had never had them before so weren't 100% sure but he had felt something on his chest and managed to catch it. After looking at it we got up and turned the laptop on to do a bit of research and were correct, we found 3 more after a good inspection, not an infestation but definitely a problem. I Skyped home as it was a good time and waited until a reasonable time to ch...

Day 175- The bus was to depart at 8am so after breakfast we set a fine pace to the bus station. Once there we discovered that including the two of us there was 3 people bound for Melaka on the 35 seat luxury coach. We didn't complain and made ourselves very comfortable. We passed through customs and Malaysian border control no problem. Once over the border the bus pulled into a station where it filled up with new passengers and continued on. We arrived into Mel...