Not many pictures and videos coming out at the moment as the connections are slow and the subject matter a little dull.
Today we spent over 6 hrs in a minivan travelling through the far south of Thailand, stopping in Hat Yai, before crossing the border into Malaysia, and then travelling down to our final destination, Georgetown.
Immy and Rigs managed extremely well with the travelling, certainly helped by the 2hr break in Hat Yai, when for the first time on this trip I was happy to take them to McDonald's. The reason for this lapse in my revoltion at the golden arches, is that the Mcdonalds in Hat Yai was the target of a car bomb that went off in late March, leaving 3 dead and over 300 injured.
So before you start thinking I am a little odd placing all of us in a prime terrorist danger zone, we felt it was important to show this city some support, as it has been brought to its knese economically by the shortage of tourists that come and spend in this area, as a direct result of the bomb. This has been exaggerated by the heavy warnings to tourists not to go to Hat Yai by their home country consulates, and as such the terrorists have sadly won. So this was our minor and slightly insignificant way of sticking two fingers up at those who use blind aggression against the innocent to try and assert their beliefs.
That's all a bit heavy, so lets leave it there, slightly different from my corny pun about bombing our way south yesterday!
First impressions of Georgetown are very good, a nice contrast to Thailand, but will hold back till we have seen more in the daylight before commenting.
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