Penang Update
Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Sun 11 Sep 2016 02:53
The marina
continues to be bumpy especially when the wind out to sea blows hard. I still cannot understand how swells can turn
through 125 degrees at the top of the island and then through another 180
degrees to get into the marina. But
there you are and on Tuesday night some boats actually broke their mooring
lines.
I cycled
around the old town. Not just British
Colonial but Chinese as well. Lots of
Chinese tourists. I am glad I have my
bike so that I can blast through them.
It is especially good fun to run over their toes. Chinese tourists have
no manners at all and it is the duty of Westerners to punish them.
I went
around a rich person’s house. The
jewelry and clothing were incredible. I
then went up the hill on the funicular railway.
It only takes eight minutes to reach the top. The old train took 30 minutes. The rich British lived up here because it was
cooler. But before the railway it must
have been an almighty climb. I also visited a monastery where people put
turtles in a pond instead of a nice big lake.
The pond is being rebuilt so the poor things are living on a building
site.
