Travel Log 5

Agnes’s Brothers wedding was huge. Agnes like most Chinese families out here has about 10 aunts and uncles on both sides of her family meaning she has millions of cousins. There are so many things that go on in a Chinese wedding and too many to explain. So I shall just say thanks Agnes for inviting me.

 

After the wedding I had planned to go straight to Thailand however school holidays changed my plan as there weren’t any trains or buses for a few days so on the spur of the moment having 10 minutes before the bus left I decided to go back to Penang and try and get a bus from there. On the bus I realised that I neither had money in my wallet for a taxi nor credit on my phone to call Kendra for a lift and that I would be arriving at the bus station out of town at 1 in the morning. Unfortunately Kendra didn’t answer the phone when I called using the taxi drivers mobile so in the end I had to get the taxi driver to drive me to an ATM machine so I could pay him a ridiculous amount for the taxi ride to the hotel I had been staying at previously.

The next day I found out that there weren’t any buses from Penang for a few days either. Luckily Kendra wiped her evening schedule clean and had a bank holiday on Friday. Ta Muchly.

Saturday came quickly enough and I now find myself in the film ‘The Beach’ staying at the dirty hotel where Dicaprio gets given the map. Like Leo I also want to escape the hotel. Not because it is dirty as it is probably one of the cleaner places I have stayed thus far but for the irritating fellow travellers there seems to be here (next door neighbours are having an argument about money as I write this (later just as I was about to fall asleep they decide to have loud make-up sex - bed banging and screaming involved!)). Having said this one of the travellers did provide a funny moment when he crashed his scooter into three others when trying to park causing several broken lights. I had to bite my lip real hard not to laugh out loud.

Tomorrow I head to the Island where The Beach was shot.