During our birthdays we have booked a stay in a fancy hotel called Hard Rock Hotel Penang. It is a fancy hotel located in the beach area of the island Batu Ferringhi. Alena is in charge of bookings and she spent some time investigating the hotels.
To compare we have spent about 3k sek for 1 mon...
It is called Amanville and it suits the needs of the 1y.o baby quite well. Of course it is targetting children which are older, but there is still plenty to do with 1y.o. The entrance for the infants is free (I am not sure till how old, because the person just looked at Alisa and said "FREE"). The...
When we got the car in Malaysia it has a radio station tuned in. It is english speaking radio in Malaysia "Fly FM". It plays pop music english and malay. What caught my ear was the advertisement. They had social ads airing the whole day. Ads about things like don't spend too much money, don't give...
We spend a lot of time in the malls in Georgetown (there are many), because it is hot outside from around 12 to 3-4pm. Malls have a lot of space, many different thing to do (besides shopping) and it is cool (fresh, sometimes too cool).
What i have noticed spending so much time in the malls is the...
We have a car here in Malaysia for the whole period of of our stay. It only costs 4000 sek (approx) for 1 month + 2000 sek deposit in case I do some damage to it. When we picked up the car at the airport they were very thorough to point out to me every scratch on the car even the smallest one which...
Not far from our apartment there is a huge building with like gazillion apartments in there. I walked around it a couple of times, it is like a mini city. Huge parking lot, barber shops, restaurants, convenience stores etc, everything inside the building (or on its sides). Almost every apartment has...
Internet in Thailand was a problem, but then we needed it purely for social interactions. In Malaysia we need Internet for more business purposes. Alena is using a lot of traffic for conference calls and video communications.
The house we stay in has internet connection so we were not worried abo...