29/11: GeorgeTown

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Biked around old (& slighty newer) Georgetown to see the main tourist attractions.
They call the slightly newer part "buffer" for old georgetown..it is malaysian preservation strategy..

Penang State Museum: Worth 1RM (which is about 0,25€), but Line & me usually find museum to be quite boring and this was not the exception to this date...more luck next time ;-)
Fort Cornwalis: Also worth the 2RM, old English star layout port fort. Thick walls and big ol' guns. To be considered as a garden ornament for the future, but where to find a 2ton 18th century japanese jonk canon in Belgium??
Chinese Clan house: which had a 200y old flapping door somewhere in a (seemingly) not important room? But seemed highly important to some old chinese guy who really wanted to have our & his picture taken with it. He also gave us his address so we can send the pictures to him...maybe his personal 200y old project for the museum?? It could file perfectly with the pictures about the clans "cyclo-calculator" & printer that seemed to be important enough to be memorised on a wall?? Strange characters those Chinese...

        

Biked further around, saw some mosques, more Chinese temples, Hindu temples?...It is true, Penang really is a melting pot of cultures. You see, smell & taste it all around! Good spice for live on this island. Had a nice indian dinner, Roti Canai (4 style): a bread like pancake with onion, some butter, sweet & curry sauce and nasi kandar: rice w black drenked soy sauce chicken & cabbage fried in turmeric with really good spices. Tasty!

At some point we walked into a shopping mall (luckily, cause 5min later the sky opened for the first time this day) and Line saw a wedding dress in a shop she wanted to fit...50€...mmm, should we already book a return ticket for shopping after the trip?? Not yet, the dress wasn't right around the tits, but a dress for 50€ + flight 500€ is still a cheap wedding dress.