An early arrival of 6am we stumbled to our hostel. The kind receptionist let us go straight into our room so we decided to have an extra couple hours of sleep. When we arose, energised and excited to explore a new place - there is always this inital sense of adventure and the unknown which never becomes old or unexciting in a new place.We were dressed for the beach.... but oh my life. There was a storm. Lucy couldn't believe it! Her last day with me alone and the...

An early morning, sleep filled bus ride later Lucy and I jumped off our bus and landed on Penang soil. The air was fresh, excluding the bus fumes, and we hunted a bus to our hostel. After quite a bit of hunting, and being sent in the wrong direction we arrived at our humble abode! Lucy was already considering whether the bed sheets had been washed and whether it was safe to sleep directly on them, I was enjoying the luxuary of a window and the bug spray was ou...

The motorway ripped through the dense green landscape. Generic commerical boards scattered all over on giant lollypop sticks. We were dropped on the road outside chinatown - a pedestrian onyl zone at nighttime. Like packhourses we struggled our way between the narrow stalls before arriving at chinatown inn. We had two seriously actionpacked days in Kuala Lumpur - otherwise known as KL. We queued or 3 hours for a 20 minutes trip up the Petronas Twin Towers - whic...