Archive for February 20th, 2008

We shall delight them on the beaches

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Just a quick line before today’s outing. V is currently having some sort of turbo massage in the hotel’s spa, and I’m about to do the set list for tonight (and am currently typing this on her Macbook Pro - oh joy!).  Because this afternoon, we’re off to the beach.

A1  - the lovely woman with the deep laugh - is picking us up at 1pm to take us to Batu Ferringhi, Penang’s main (as in: nicest) beach.  Yes, it may look like there’s a beach outside of my window, but in fact, it’s mud:

 

Whereas Batu Ferringhi, it would seem, looks like a Bounty advert:

Batu Ferringhi

I’m imagining it to be something like Ibiza… And funnily enough, they used to film Bounty adverts on Ibiza (or rather, on nearby Formentera). Fancy that.

I’ll be back with pictures, and a beach ball, later. 

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Chicks and furniture

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

V and I went for a wander through Georgetown today - and as we mooched around, poking our nose into shops, eating curry, stopping for a drink at a hostel - I completely fell in love with the place.

Photographically, at least.

Not that I didn’t fall in love with it on other levels - it’s just that it’s such a photogenic town.

The colours, the light, the architecture (a mixture of colonial and Chinese, delapidated and not), the signs… and of course the things which are simply unusual to our Western eyes: tiny shrines holding burning incense sticks, scooters with trays of eggs strapped to the back, bananas hanging in mid-air… I can’t wait to return with the SLR camera that B leant me and really go to town. Quite literally.

I’ve uploaded the photographs onto Flickr here - and added them to the start of the Penang set here.

Meanwhile, here are some of the choicest signs:

For S:

 

For J:

 

For my American friends:

 

 And for everyone else:

 

 

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