Today we said farewell to Malaysia and headed to our first stop in Thailand, Koh Lanta. We had booked our tickets through a travel agency to make life a little easier and were told that it would take around 6 and a half hours altogether consisting of 2 ferries and 1 bus. Given that our previous journeys in south east Asia have went pretty smoothly, we were hopeful to be relaxing on the beach in Koh Lanta by half 3. How wrong we were. We were told to be ready to...

I'm not going to lie and say that we have an amazing amount to right about over our last few days in Langkawi. Generally, most of the days have been the same in the we've got up quite late, headed to the beach then had a late lunch followed by another couple of hours on the beach before we've went out for an evening meal. We've loved it!!! We did decide to go out for a few drinks on Sunday night as Newcastle were playing and I can't resist watching us play no ...

Our last few days in Penang were uneventful as we were both quite tired and looking forward to getting to a beach. The main items of note were the food which we were having which remained excellent. On Monday night, we went to a food court near to our hostel and both had the same Thai dish with me having chicken and Beth having seafood. It was hot and spicy and we both loved it. The next night, we went back to Little India and I had a chilli chicken curry whi...

Our Friday night in Georgetown was spent at the Esplanade where they were having a celebration for the last night of the Chinese New Year festivities which also coincided with Valentines Day. There was a stage with some music and dancing in an loads of stalls selling cheap street food. We had some spring rolls, potato cakes and chicken satay sticks which were all great then had a sit on the grass and watched some different singing and dancing which we both enjo...

Our journey to Georgetown on the Malaysian island of Penang wasn't too bad. We left our guesthouse in Malacca at 8 am on Thursday morning and caught the bus to the central bus station. After waiting for around an hour our bus finally turned up about 10 minutes late and we jumped on to a better bus than we had expected. It was a double decker bus with plenty of legroom which was good considering we had a 7 hour journey ahead of us. We made it to Kuala Lumpur w...