North to Penang


We had a rake through Chinatown, taking in some food, a walk around the harbour sampling a

We also met up with some friends of my granny for a couple of beers (at 6 pounds each :o/....

So, we got tickets for a night bus for the 800km journey north to the island of Penang. This left from some dodgy out of town shopping centre filled with thai karaoke bars trying to out do one another with the worst sounding din. Thai Hip-Hop isn't exactly Snoop Dogg :)
We woke up the next morning at 8am with the bus driver screaming at us to get off the (now empty) bus as we had arrived at Butterworth, the ferry port for boats to Penang. Stumbling off the bus and down to the the pier still half asleep, we paid the 20p each and got the boat over to the island.

The rest of the day was spent walking around Georgetown, eating some very dubious braised duck for dinner in chinatown along the way. You know something's not quite right when the entire family on the next table looking in your direction and giggle among themselves.
This was also the day I finally got my first competition victory of the year in my new found event: 'Moon Cake Eating'! I managed to outdo a chubby indian bloke, a chinese lad and a maly

Finally, in the eveningwe took a walk down the main strip of bars and clubs. The last bar we visited 'the soho' was pretty much full of middle aged white blokes and young malaysian girls getting down to the sounds of Sidney Youngblood. Quality place.. especially the loving prepared display of photos featuring the manager and famous faces such as Andy Peters, Sid Little, Wayne Sleep and Chris de Burgh hung behind the bar.
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Pt.2

The 'amazing' temple full of smoke from incence sticks and a couple of monks touting their fruit

I then had the joy of an indian bloke placing two of these slithery things throwingon my head and another in my hands while his sidekick told me to smile at the camera. "don't worry, they're very friendly sir". Yeah right! To say I was cacking

After all this fun we did a loop of the island riding through the mountains, realising I'd managed to lose the moped key somewhere along the way. I did this in thailand 4 years ago so should have really learnt my lesson. This meant a 30km ride back through to Georgetown and lots of traffic praying that the thing wouldn't stall where we

Happily, we got back ok and the bloke at the hire shop didn't seem too bothered about the key.
Tomorrow we're planning to take the early 3hr boat trip north to Langkawi. Apparantly there's a few monkeys, eagles and most importantly, cheap beer there :)
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