Hi everyone, Argh!!! Another city in boiling humid weather not fun!. Penang itself is a massive island off the coast of Malaysia but we based ourselves in Georgetown, the main town there. Georgetown was a really nice city probably the most touristy place we had been to in Malaysia with loads of guest houses and western restaurants. Tons of impressive buildings and of course the standard chinatown and Asian area. There is a massive fort which was where the Briti...

Hi Everyone, As per usual we are way behind on these journal entries and are currently inThailand but shouls catch you all up on Malaysia first. After Melaka we made the fatal mistake on travelling by bus to the capital on a Sunday probably the busiest day of the week, arriving in KL we couldnt even get into the bus station and had to walk into the mentalness. Luckily we were staying right near the bus station. KL was fab though after getting to gripes with th...

Hi everyone, After leaving Singapore we crossed uneventfully the border into Malaysia. First stop the bus station and deju vu, like South America again, people shouting at you from all directions, noise, strange smells, fab!!! First stop Mersing where you can go to an island, except that once there we decided not to go (we know were strange) but hadnt heard that good reports on it and for Malaysia cost a fortune to get there. So instead we caught yet another bu...

Hi Everyone, After waving goodbye to Hong Kong we flew to Singapore and we are sorry to say after the madness of Hong Kong we found Singapore kind of dull. It was a nice city very clean and efficent with good transport service and the more malls than we have ever seen. The first shops we saw were Topshop, River Island and Dotty P's thought we were back in Swindon town centre unfortunatley it wasnt any cheaper than at home. We had a day getting our bearings aro...

Hi Everyone, From the relative quiet of perth we headed to the madness which is Hong kong but we both absolutely loved the place. The first thing you notice is the heat and the humidity and the next thing that hits you is just the shear amount of people everywhere all day and all night. We had treated ourselves to a hotel whilst we were here and were even more pleased to find we had been upgraded to a deluxe room, fab!! huge king size bed, flat screen tv, mini ...