After our umptienth bus, taxi, ferry, bus, taxi journey from destination to destination we arrived in Penang. We had booked a guesthouse earlier on in the day, well we had booked three just in case as it was the weekend of Chinese New Year, but we had told all of them we would be there before 6pm. Yet due to the usual delays we arrived later than we expected so we were frantically making calls from the ferry trying to ensure each of the guesthouses didnt sell our reservation. The guesthouse we were keen on had sold our room so we were left with two other options. We arrived in the centre of Penang and got dropped off at our first guesthouse. We had provisionally booked a dorm room but what we found was a dozen
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