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Hey all,
Thanks for all your messages, is nice to hear from so many of you from back home.
Since I last updated this we moved to Chaweng beach in Koh Samui for 3 days where we stayed in a little beach resort. Had a great time apart from the weather. On the 5th january we left Thailand for Malaysia. Our first stop off the ferry being Penang - George Town. Well........what can i say....an eye opener if nothing more. When we arrived we had to find accomodation, tired from the 2 days travelling (as we had a night mare and had to stay near the boarder in Thailand over night) we found a hostel, looked in the room briefly dumped our bags and went to get food. Finding food seemed to be a problem..accept for curry!!! and what ever the girls seemed to order they didnt have...very strange evening!! But funny!! Good job we could laugh about it after!!!
After that little adventure...nobody being able to really understand us we thought it was best just to retire to our rooms for the night, feeling shattered we thought we'd have a nice shower ad get into bed watch films on our Ipods seeing as we had to be up at at 6.30 the next morning for Langkawi!!
What can i tell you about our room.............one word DUMP!! It was awful ..when we returned back from dinner our beds where covered in dust from the fan, there were creepy crawlies in there, (i've got killing crawlies down to an art now...if Wicker's cant kill them, her 100% mozzie spray does!!) the shower i wouldn't have even washed my knickers in it....so yes you've guessed it...we didnt have showers...we all slept in our clothes for fear of being eaten by bed bugs and out came sleeping bag liners!! The worst accomodation yet but it seemed to be the same everywhere in George Town!! It doesnt finish there - they had a live band too...bang bang bang went the music till 2am......then drunk travellers banging there doors, knocking on random doors shouting singing...finally Vikki and i got to sleep at 3.30am!!!!!!! 6am the alarm went off!! and we got up and left quickly!!
Finally arriving in Langkawi, after a log journey we found a lovely beach resort in Cenang!! perfect this place was paradise. We dumped our bags and fought for the shower!! All showered and cleaned we headed for the beach, walked along the white sand and found a plave for a drink...then headed off for a bit of retail therapy!! We stayed in Langkawi for 4 days.....where last night we had to return to George town. We couldnt face that accommodation so we paid over the odds for a nice hotel. Our taxi driver was brilliant!! loved having 3 English girls in his car (after working in London for many years as a chef) and showed us more of Penang we hadnt seen as in the city...took us to the tasting chocolate factory, showed us what hotel we should stay in then, then finally dropped us at the shopping mall where us girls headed straight for pizza hut!! Then once we had finished we saw him at the Taxi rank again and gave us a free ride back to hotel hong ping!!!!!!
Another early start this morning....6am pick up and off to Cameron Highlands!!
This a beauitful place...you'll see when i upload photos soon (they take so long so I need more time than i have now) We are meant to be here for 2 nights but there isnt much to do so we've changed that to 1 night and tomorrow we head for Kuala Lumpur!! Cant wait!! Just been to buy some sickness tablets....Im not doing too well with travel sickness...it was a close shave on our 4 hour journey this monring....deep breathing and my head stuck out the window like a dog catching some air ....i survived the journey of winding round mountains and bends without being sick all down the mans clean mini bus!! Think after watching me turn a nice shade of white and green, the driver, Vikki and Tara were quite releaved we had finally arrived at our destination!! lol
Anyway must dash as we are off for a tour round the island and to see the tea factory, butterfly farm, strawberry farm etc. Will write to you soon. take care. Miss you all.
xx
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