Arriving in Penang is a huge contrast to Singapore Our Air Asia out of Terminal 4 at Changi was great.
The terminal is amazing. Modern, state of the art and all ran on time.
I had the best coffee experience at a beautiful coffee house.
Choosing from the extensive coffee list was difficult. So many varieties. The white gloved man described the blends and i selected. It doesn’t come with milk but a small pot of cream. See the picture. As well as the coffee in a beautiful cup nestled in a tray there was a crystallised sugar stick to stir the coffee. – and …..you get a mini pastry of the day.
It was all delicious-especially after the coffee machine at Legoland. all for $8 Singapore.
There was a giant slide to get to a lower level in the airport where a huge red playground waited for the young at heart to have a play.
There was a ‘fake’ street of painted houses and speciality shops.
The best was the woman’s toilets. Heated, self cleaning seats. Art works huge mirrors , bright and clean and inviting. Amazing!
Arriving in Penang was a let down. An old airport and the longest customs queue. We took an hour to clear customs. Into a taxi to the hotel took another hour.
We were ready for a swim. things were looking up.
Lots of families. Mostly covered from head to toe in black. The beautiful friendly Muslim women look so hot until they get into the water in the fully covered black swim wear. Again I felt underdressed.
There are 5 pools and several slides which Ollie has been up and down hundreds of times.
Our rooms are connecting which is perfect. Refreshed from the swim we went in search of food. Ollie wanted grilled prawns so we headed to the night food markets and found great food. So cheap. Prawns, a beautiful fish with ginger sauce for me. A noodle dish for Pete. A beer each. We didn’t spend more than $50 and it was great.
The next few days we’ll be relaxing and eating. Follow us…….
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