Georgetown, Penang Georgetown is a world heritage town full of little streets with Indian, Chinese, Malay and British architecture. Not quite as picturesque as we'd expected, but interesting. It's renowned for its street food and has lots of hawker cafes, but we found it quite difficult to figure out what things were or to find any vegetarian versions of things. Everyone will do veggie food if you ask, but it tends to be either plain veggie fried rice or veggie fried noodles, which is a bit dull after two months in Asia. We stayed in a cheapish heritage hotel which was in a beautiful building but a bit impractical. Our room had a wooden floor with big cracks between the beams, and no real window, just shutters. Atmospheric, but very noisy and hot. As Julia wasn't
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