Time travel

The missing bit: Malaysia and Thailand Apr & May 07
You might have noticed that the old Bligblagblog got miraculously up to speed and we are now pretty much in the present. This was due to me kind of skipping a goodly portion of my wayfaring, namely the bit including Malaysia and the Thai islands.

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, so to that effect I have loaded up a whole host of new pics on my Flickr site to save having to do the writing bit. That said, couldn't resist displaying this selection here. They don't tell you anything of my travels really, maybe just a little about my state of mind. (I think you get the picture...quite literally.) Obv the more informative style pics can be seen on Flickr.

Amazing who you bump into on the road. This is Nathan & Petra from Herne Hill, a stone's throw from my home whom I met in Kota Bahru, Malaysia and hung out with on the Perhentian Islands. After a little chatting it turns out that they not only know of the Badger (my upstairs neighbour and once the owner of the finest pair of Piccadilly Weepers south of the river) but are big fans of a band he plays in: Rowan & The Crops Failed. Petra in fact runs (or rather ran before they left London to see the world) the South London Club at the Windmill in Brixton and The Badger was at their farewell bash. Small world eh? Still, I wouldn't like to lick it clean.

A charming advertisement for what I presume are the Penang version of Fishermen's Friends.

A urinal in Penang, Malaysia. A strange place for a pair of tongs...I wonder what they are used for? Still, could save washing your hands I suppose.

A portrait of some rum looking cove from Penang's museum. When I took it I thought it looked the spit of Jon Petty but now I see it again I think it's more like Richard Hammond - the midget from Top Gear, a show I HATE (and that's a strong word in my book).

Now here's a freak of nature. A gang of six toed cats in Langkawi. This was the mother of them all. They say that homo sapien dominates the earth due to our manible thumbs. Is this the next link in the evolutionary chain?

Ahhh, a little reminder of home - nutty brown Harvey's IPA at the Royal Oak on Tabard Street. Shame it was just a beer mat but The Badger tried to send an emergency parcel of the ambrosia before to Perth but to no avail. Still, the beer mat did a fine job of keeping the bugs out of the Bangkok G&T!

Backed up with Blog-Block

Yeah, it's happened again but this time it's a record - I'm three countries behind although actually not that much over a month. Blog says: Australia, the truth says: Thailand (having been through Singapore and Malaysia in the interim). The problem is my wayfaring, itinerant lifestyle with nary a day and a night in one spot, and if there is, it's some tropical beach (with all the usual trappings I hasten to add, like cobalt blue water, unerring sunshine, Bob Marley...hmmm) unsullied by the pervading creep of the devil's portal. So updates have proved difficult. I shall try and get ontop of things and at least bring the wayward beast into BST.

For those that are plotting my progress on a big map-o-the-world wall chart with coloured pins linked with yards of garden twine (I think that's just Mrs Goringe, my probabation officer, as usual) I'm in Krabi, on the coast of SW Thailand.

Childish but amusing: in Thai it's polite to say crap at the end of most phrases. In a restaurant complimenting the chef: You're food is very fine crap. Stop it, it's not clever.