30 June Georgetown

 Incredibly hot day, so up to the pool again

Murtabak

 veg/non-veg selection. Pretty nice food and kind staff. Jaya on Penang Rd

29 June Pulau Pinang

 Deadly hot thali & lemon rice

 cool down with badam milk (almond)

 view from the hotel pool, where we had a nice swim

My awesome $10 mustache shirt
postscript - This shirt has proven to be somewhat of a hit. Suddenly the hotel staff try to get me into taxis (I guess people in this kind of shirt don't walk), waiters smile and make jokes (usually they are quite stiff & surly), an old man, wearing an equally awful shirt, ran up to shake my hand in the street and service in general from banks to 7-11s has improved considerably. I seem to have unwittingly joined some kind of secret club.

28 June Pg

 I was delighted to visit Fort Cornwallis, tho $20 to get in and walk around on some grass is a rip.

 A mythical cannon that floats because a prince tied a thread on his finger and cursed it.

 We went to the movies, $8 for 3D on a big screen. We were the only people in the cinema. What did we see? Doesn't matter.

Ringstingin' Biryani set!!! Oh yeh - I've given up on cutlery and eat with my hands now.

27 June Penang 2

 Chana Bhatura before

 Chana Bhatura after...........Woodlands VEG Restaurant, with ginger tea and samosa

 Its Ramadan, so the feeding frenzy starts after sundown.

The AngMoh backpackers hostel.
AngMoh is a derogatory & racist term used by Malays and Singaporeans to describe Caucasians, not sure how many of their guests realise that.

27 June Penang

 ginger tea and umm burfi

So glad central Penang has not changed much, other than Little India getting a lot bigger. the suburbs of Penang have turned into rows of high rise apartments. Bought a nice CD, Tamil devotional chants to a beat, on the Dope Music label of Tamil Nadu, Kuberan Tharisanam - Listen to track 1

25 June Malaqa

 At least they used RCDs, gives you a 50% chance of survival, depending whether you touch the wire going in or the wire going out. Open connections like this are everywhere on the streets, people seem to be smart enough to leave them alone.

Sadly the sign telling us this is a great photo spot was blocking the view of the supposedly great photo spot. A bit further along there was a guy in the water collecting shellfish. Pretty certain this river is mainly raw sewage.

25 June Melaka

 The Fiat workshop

 Squidman!

 Nightmarket at dusk, as it is Ramadan everybody was eating dinner.

Most of these tri-shaws play loud thumping techno as they ride around

23 June 2016 Melaka

more fun times in the heat

 lining up for some City Chicken

 Looks like she had a top night!

 Poster of traditional houses of Melaka, includes the owners' names, addresses and even phone numbers if you want to give them a call.

 Dig the guy on the right

 rockin' that wig.....the fellow on the left is impressed too

 with a ponytail even!!!