With just two full days in Kuala Lumpur, we decided a bit of downtime for the kids was in order before heading into our three-week Sri Lanka adventure. We stayed in a self-catering serviced apartment in the heart of the city. Our plan was to let the children play, catch up on our mass of laundry and relax by the pool. Battling the cities traffic, our transfer from the airport took a good hour and a half, but soon relaxed after arriving at our apartment complex, where a smal

Despite there being a relatively short 3-hour ferry ride connecting Langkawi and Penang, we’d heard too many rumours of rough seas and super speedy ferries which equated to copious amounts of sea sickness. Apparently, when sufficiently organised, they hand out sick bags to all passenger’s pre-departure. After a late-night Air Asia hunt, we jumped on probably the shortest flight we’ve ever taken...around 20 minutes from take-off to landing! We decided to split Langkawi in two

We arrived on the north-western island of Penang at around 3pm local time, gathered our copious baggage, inclusive of our 3 and 5-year olds and headed straight for George Town. Malaysia’s second most populous city; George Town is also the most densely populated and our taxi ride from airport to accommodation, which took about 45 minutes, meandered past an eclectic mix of buildings from utilitarian high-rise flats to crumbling old colonial mansions. The c.15-hour travel time f