Thots here and there: pics from penang

The first place on our heritage walk was to visit the cemetary. This was where KC and I spent our Saturday noons dating long time ago. Lyn was most excited

Of course the tomb of Sir Francis Light is a must see. We zoomed straight in search of this tomb first.

See how ancient it is....I guess this is the very thing that makes us excited. To know we are walking where the ancient people walked years ago. And it's most interesting that Lyn has such great interest in such history relics as I do.

This is Thomas Leonowen's tomb....when we saw his name on the board at the entrance we were so excited because of who the wife was....Anna Leonowens; the governess to King Mongkut's children.

An old building which we passed by...made into heritage site also. Think belongs to Kedah royalty.

One of the highlights of the walk was looking for murals. This is one of the better preserved murals. Most of the murals have faded.

Some murals are not painting...they are actually made from some sort of steel or whatever. These are study and definitely will last longer. We missed quite a number of these as some camouflaged so well that they are not noticeable. We did a count of how many we saw and Dan said he saw more. We were upset that he didn't tell us but he insisted that he did try telling us but none of us were listening to him. Poor boy....

This is real creative....lamp shade made out of biscuit tins

We took a short cut using a back lane and passed through real old and rundown buildings like this. Root has grown into the building. We also saw a drug addict sitting at the back of some shops.

This is at Love Lane....where is my husband??? Real cute.

Any relations to the Lims that I know in Seremban?

These bikes are for rent! Dan was so tired that he wanted us to rent a bike to cycle around. Come to think of it, he didn't enjoy the walk as much as we did... I think his stomach was bothering him and he just kept quiet.

This is at Jalan Ah Kwee....The Mat Salleh trying to get the name Ah Kwee correct.

Hah...this is faded. It's a boy riding a motorbike (clear) and chased by a smaller boy and a dinosaur (almost gone).

I love this. So so cute. I was in the toilet just behind the wall and could hear people shouting across the road telling the friends how to post etc with the mural.

While waiting for our turn to post at the mural, we saw this cute dog. He is carrying his own bag...probably his drinks and food. Really obedient and well trained.

This is a shop of antiquities. The man outside is playing an old chinese musical instrument.

Trishaw...the mode of transport those days. I thought of getting on a trishaw for a ride but Lyn refused to. She felt it was wrong to make an old man carry her around town even though it's giving him business.

Another interesting thing when we walked around town was looking at signs like this which explains to us the origins of the name of the streets. Like this is Jalan Soo Hong...the smallest street in town. Anyway.....every other street seemed to be named after some rich chinese business man.