After the Man United dinner, it was off to Penang to catch up with the other Robson, Kingsley, an old friend who was at Equatorial Hotel, Malacca; who is now the General Manager of the Dorsett Hotel in Georgetown, Penang.
The funny thing about visiting Penang for a
Malaccan is the similarities one finds with Malacca.
The colonial buildings are similar, although there are many more in Penang; the pictures of the new Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng is disconcerting as he used to drink at the same pub we frequent in Malacca; the Nyonya Restaurants; and taking the cake must be Restoran Subiddah, the Nasi Kandar restaurant which has branches in Malacca as well!!
Kingsley put me up in an enormous suite, which was very, very nice, however going to the loo in the middle of the night (especially after a night out drinking) was especially precarious, as I had to cross a large room and traverse a walk-in wardrobe, before getting to the loo! Komtar, the tallest building in Penang, viewed from my room's balcony.
Sheik, Kingsley and me after a chinese dinner at Tshunami Village
The worst part of this journey was the 7 hour drive back to Malacca, next time it's a 50 min Firefly flight from Subang airport!!
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