George Town, Penang street scenes

Anchored further down the river away from the noise

Hi Everyone,

  It was a calm and quiet night!  We were far enough down the river that we didn’t hear the karaoke though I could feel the thrum when I woke at 3:45 am.  It ended at 4 am again.  This afternoon we’ll move down to the boat yard. We have to maneuver into position with the help of a tug to get our 34 ton DoraMac onto a travel lift and out of the water.  A lot is involved because of the wind and current.  One of the boat yard men will come aboard to throw the lines when that needs to happen. That was my idea. I’m not perfect at it and you have to be in this situation because it moves fast. It will be interesting and sort of scary and we hope it all goes as it should. I can’t even imagine though we did go through this once in China when we moved to a second boat yard. I didn’t throw the lines then either. We stayed in a hotel there: this time we’ll stay on the boat and climb up and down by a ladder.   I’ll take lots of photos. Life on a boat! 

Ru

Images of George Town November 19th, 2009

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Customs Building across from the city marina

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Old and really old mixed. I was trying to capture the tree and wooden roof and not the man begging. Actually, oddly, I didn’t see him in the photo until I looked at it on the computer. It’s easy to just focus on my original subject and “not see” anything around it.

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Chinatown

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Lots of motorcycles and modern malls too. We were walking past here on our way to a mall with a grocery store and Maybank (Malaysia Bank.)

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Street scenes

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Rattan shop

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I loved the trickshaw and didn’t notice the snazzy orange car until I looked at the photo. Randal had noticed the car and says it’s either a Porsche or a Nissan.

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An alley way with a lovely painted fence and leaning light poles.

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Restaurants open onto the sidewalk

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A leather shop, like the rattan shop and many others open onto the sidewalk. That’s Randal’s shoulder and backpack strap on the right. Someday Randal will have leather covering the settee and chairs.

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Interesting sign

Ruth Johnson

DoraMac