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Day one of our European , Asian adventure, finally setting off to Venice on easyjet which is an adventure in itself. We set off at 8.45, with a much appreciated lift, with our heavy bags from Trish's sister Marie to lime street station to get the train to Manchester airport. The journey went quite smooth till we got to the airport rail station and I decided we no longer needed the tickets and threw them away, only to be confronted by the conductor at the exit, and then had to scurry back down the escalator and retrieve them, at least I was told I wasn't the first person to do it, quite pleased over that. Inside the airport we had to chuck out most of our liquids when we were presented with a bag even Barbie would struggle with, so once through security it was time for a well-earned pint before being herded on to the plane, economy airline style, I’m already knackered and I’m still on the tarmac in Manchester!   Finally touched down at Venice airport and decided to go a

Returning back to Penang was like visiting an old friend, it was like we had never been away, although we did notice the traffic was a lot worse than in Langkawi . It took us about an hour and a half to get back to the hotel due to the peak hour traffic and when we asked at reception for our key, they didn’t even notice we had been away, even though we told them!  Early evening we decided to go for a walk to see a waterfall that was signposted by the side of the road. There was an opening in to a field leading to a dusty path, and the occasional sign saying “waterfall this way”, after about five minutes and the sound of large dogs getting ever nearer, we bumped into Anthony. Anthony was about twenty five and told us he ran one of the bars we had just passed with his wife, and told us to pop in on the way back, we asked him about the waterfall and he said it wasn’t far just follow the path and don’t worry about the dogs. We said we’ll see him later and continued for about two more minut