Hello!

When we last blogged we were waiting out the storm in Kuala Lumpur, which became a regular hobby in the afternoons. After the rains ceased we headed out for dinner, fully kitted out in our fake clobber, we ate down Jalan Alhor the noisy and chaotic food street where we had most of meals for our stay trying all of the different stalls. After dinner we went to a bar to watch Norwich v Chelsea, the pub was dead and the game was worse.

Next day, up early for a breakfast of chicken feet and headed to the Petronas Towers, hugely impressive and for sky scrapers quite beautiful. We wandered around the mall and the gardens surrounding the towers. That night we headed out to watch the Super Sunday games and ended up hours later at 5 in the morning eating in Jalan Alhor with our unlikely rabble of followers, I'm sure you've heard the joke about the english couple, an Indian-Malay, a Mozambiquen and an Iranian? This was our crowd for the night and we had a great time.

The next day however was predictably not so great... woke at 3 in the afternoon and stayed there with our bucket of chicken.

The next day back to normality, headed to the Mall to check out the chinese new year performances, lots of drumming and dragons. We had a sushi lunch on Tokyo street which was good and then headed to the cinema to dodge the rain, watched Contraband, was quite good. After that we had claypot for dinner which is becoming a favourite. Then back to our digs to pack up ready for our early train to Penang.

The train journey was long and uneventful, seeing Malaysia's countryside was cool, very beautiful almost all jungle. After getting the ferry to Penang (its an island) we trekked to our digs to find that they had messed up our booking, not too bad tho we had two single beds for the first night and then swap to our rightful and proper room the next day. We headed out to explore and had dinner at the local night market, which was busy, noisy and smelly but the food was delicious! Returning to bed we could hear the cabaret show at the food market, wailing out an incoherent set until 2 in the morning (worthy of a Butlins red coat).

Next day after swapping rooms we headed out for curry for breakfast at a little cafe, then after an hour of seeing some sights gave up and headed for air con as it was just too hot! For dinner yesterday we went to that classic fusion restaurant thats in every hometown in the UK, Edleweiss Cafe is a Malay/Swiss place which was interesting, good food and really nice place.

Heading out to explore in a mo, Penang so far is cool, temples, traffic and too many tourists. Seems quite a relxed view to life and each other, down Pitt street there is a C of E church, a mosque, Hindu temple and a Thai buddhist temple all on the same street, which probably doesn't happen anywhere else in the world.

Back to KL tommorrow for a couple of days until we fly to Thailand!

See you there