Monday 23 July 2007

Lapping it up in the Jewel of the Orient


Skanky squat toilets one day, lap of luxury the next!
We have been upgraded, inexplicably to Penang’s glorious Eastern & Oriental Hotel - once the elegant colonial watering hole of Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling and the like. Preserving the glory of a bygone era, this place offers unimaginable luxury, impeccably mannered butlers and basically anything you could want. I wish my beloved late grandmother Gigi could see us now. She absolutely belongs here, and she so would have loved it.
PS Did I say I was ready for this holiday to end, what the puking and all? I take it back.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now that's more like it!!! Enjoy every minute of your stay at this lovely place!! You guys deserve every bit of luxury they can offer you there!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see you when you guys when you get back!!! ( does Annie ever look like you in this picture!)

Have a safe journey,
Kathy

Anonymous said...

Bugger!