A place so cool it has two spellings

We're in Malaka/Malacca! We've said goodbye to Georgetown and it's street art. When we met the Malaysian family I mentioned yesterday we asked them where to visit in Malaysia and three of them at once said Malacca and you can't ignore advice like that so today we made the 8 hour bus journey from Penang, through Kuala Lumpur to Malacca. It's been a very long day! We managed to sort out with the help of our hotel a free transfer with our bus company to the bus station in Penang. This was great as saves on a taxi but it did mean a 15 minute walk with heavy bags to the pick up point. It all went smoothly until we arrived at the bus station and our bus at 9:15am wasn't on the board and there was no general information desk to ask. We asked someone at a random bus service desk and she seemed to be implying we could get on any random bus from 3 platforms, that was until we did actually remind her it was Malacca and not Kuala Lumpur we are going to. This didn't sit right with us anyway when we had chosen seats on a specific bus. Luckily it all sorted it self out and our bus showed up as leaving at 9:30am on the sign so that was a relief. We had lots of leg room and a reclining chair with pull out leg rest as well. We had one stop on the way, which didn't seem like much for such a long journey, where we could use the loo and we got some fresh hot sweetcorn which tasted amazing! I'd saved a few episodes of a programme on YouTube offline so that and reading mainly kept us entertained. Once we arrived and after a loo stop at the station we headed in a taxi to our hostel. The taxi driver was great, really funny and knew a lot about England. He thought I looked like Adele and called me Wonder Woman for being able to carry my backpack that is significantly heavier than Nick's! Our hostel is so lovely. They've gone for that concrete modern interior with some street art on the walls and copper pipes and cool lighting in the bathrooms. They have a movie room as well as free laundry which we plan to make full use of tomorrow. We dumped our stuff and headed out around the area to find some food. The food seems to be cheaper here as well which is a bonus. It's ended up being quite a late one because the movie room is below us and a father and son are making a lot of noise in there despite Nick asking at 11pm to keep it down. We plan to ask to move tomorrow so hopefully there is another room available but tonight it's time for ear plugs and hoping!Read more