{"id":17,"date":"2016-01-05T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-01-05T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:07:27","slug":"arrived-in-penang-malaysia-by-plane-from-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Arrived in Penang, Malaysia (by plane from Manchester)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now midnight on Tuesday, local time in Penang, I started my journey here from West Kirby, in the UK yesterday at 07:30 on a drab and cold Monday\u00a0morning. The trip here went flawlessly, hats off to Turkish airlines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bosp1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"bosp1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bosp1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bosp1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bridge linking East &amp; West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For some reason I had expected it to be nice in Turkey,but Istanbul was carpeted in snow, I saw the new bridge over the Bosphorus, \u00a0I hope soon to be able to see it from underneath as I sail one of the Baba&#8217;s through the straits.<\/p>\n<p>Later on I\u00a0was surprised to see Herat in Afghanistan popup on the in flight system, a place I have fond memories of, after we went out post 911 to help bake bread following the departure of the Taliban. I&#8217;m not sure if we flew over Syria, but definitely over Iran. Now if there aren&#8217;t enough keywords in this text\u00a0to get GCHQ following this, then I feel like not paying my taxes anymore \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/herat1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"herat1\" width=\"412\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/herat1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/herat1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 85vw, 412px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flying past Herat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have met up with the seller of the boat, and he suggested we wait until tomorrow to take a first look at the boat, the main reason being that the dock has no power at the moment, but that should be repaired today.<\/p>\n<p>I like Penang, but it&#8217;s hot and very humid, like Greece in August, food is very cheap, as are most basics, however us yachties get to pay top whack for anything we need, just like anywhere else.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lady-stardust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/house.jpg\" alt=\"house\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/house.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/house-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical house\/shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now midnight on Tuesday, local time in Penang, I started my journey here from West Kirby, in the UK yesterday at 07:30 on a drab and cold Monday\u00a0morning. The trip here went flawlessly, hats off to Turkish airlines. For some reason I had expected it to be nice in Turkey,but Istanbul was carpeted in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arrived in Penang, Malaysia (by plane from Manchester)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}