Writing this on the phone as I'm too lazy to find a real computer so sorry for any spelling mistakes. Flew into penang on Tuesday which was wierd as the flight only lasted an hour and I've never flown that short haul before. And it meant we didn't get a meal! But we were staying at this pretty posh hotel called ppisland which was so lovely. Went out for lunch at this ace place called yummy cottage which was really just a little indoor street market and had some fried rice. And then got very confused about where we were (mainly my bad map reading skills) so hopped on a bus to prangin mall which is possibly the best mall in the world. I spent so much money I am really sacred to look at my bank balance. But I did buy, amongst many other things: a new pair of skinny Levis, some beautiful fake Vivian westwood shoes for £7, a pair of glasses on a necklace and an awesome shirt for just £2! It's so hard to not when everything is so stupidly cheap.
That evening we saw some fairy lights twinkling down a road so we went to explore and ended up having a steamboat, which is a bit like a Chinese version of a fondu, with a boiling spicy stock and a grill in the middle of the table and everyone cooks their own food. The place we went was amazing with millions of things on offer to cook like king prawns, clams, pat choi, spring rolls, sweetcorn, etc. So delicious and you could eat as much as you wanted. And after there was free ice cream! Only problem was the ice cream came in really odd flavours like yam, sweetcorn and durIan which is a horribly smelly fruit. So we decided to try them all and they were foul! We ended up trying to melt them in the steamboat to get rid of them! I'd never tasted durian before but it now makes the smell so much worse cos I can taste it too. Such a funny night and the meal was £4 each! Oh and before we went out wed been drinking the vodka my parents brought out and mama g was pouring herself huge measures, clearly forgetting it was 50%, so she was pretty drunk by the time we left the hotel which made it even more amusing.
Wednesday we caught a taxi over to the colonial district and took some pics, wondered through little India and ended up on the street I stayed on last time. Bought some fruit juice in a bag with a straw of a street vendor and wondered back to prangin mall to spend a bit more money. On the way out mama went to take some money out, got her pin wrong once and the machine swallowed her card! That evening we went to a huge street market for tea and ordered loads, just kept going up to different stalls and ordering more. Best was the satays and a noodle dish called Singapore mee hoon. For pudding we had this really wierd thing called chee chow fun which was really thick rice noodles with sweet prawn sauce. Not that nice but the locals were loving it.
Pop ordered a taxi stupidly early the next morning and we went and caught our freezing cold air conditioned ferry to langkawi. Apparently its Muslim honeymoon season and pretty much everyone else on the ferry was young men in shorts and tshirts with tiny wives dressed head to toe in black veils with only a small slit for their eyes. Was a bit odd to find ourselves part of a very small minority of females with our full faces on show. On langkawi we stayed a tropical report which was lovely and clean (although it had the hardest beds in the world) but had the massive problem that we weren't allowed to drink there as the owner was Muslim. Was lovely to be on a duty free island though as beers cost 30p!I didn't feel that well so didn't do much on Wednesday so didn't do that much. Thursday I also don't think we did that much, just lay around as the weather wasn't that great. Friday we went on the island hopping tour which was ace. Went on a speedboat out to a beautiful little beach on another island and had a swim, then saw some eagles which were amazing and then went to an island with loads of monkeys and a huge freshwater lake and had a swim in that next to the mangroves. All really beautiful and we saw what langkawi is really like without all the spas and tourist shops. Had a horrible dinner at an Indian place called the British raj and then went and sat on the beach drinking beers and watching the crabs running around. Next day it rained the whole day which was crap so we stayed inside. Evening was good though, we went to a Turkish restaurant and had lovely food and then persuaded mama and pop to get a shIsha! Don't think they liked it much but soph and I had loads of fun! Then went somewhere else and had cocktails so had a really good night.
Flew back to kl the next day which was odd as I've never been on an internal flight. But we are staying in the poshest most amazing hotel here. It's called the park royal and its five stars! The rents stayed here over Easter when the ash cloud stopped them getting home and they wanted to treat us cos its beautiful.were on the 21st floor so have the best view and can walk around your room naked and no one knows. And there's so much free stuff and a massive free buffet breakfast. It's going to be really hard to go back to dorms and little fan huts after this! Mama and pop have just taken soph to the airport as she flies home today, and then were off to tIoman tomorrow xx
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