Butterworth

We went overseas today. We are still waking up at odd times in the early hours and  after discovering the Penang Museum was still shut (closed since Covid) we decided to walk to the ferry terminal and go over to the mainland and check out the Butterworth art trail.  No matter which back streets you walk down there's always an interesting building to admire.

There are a few street cats and they have it tough compared to the Sifnos street cats. Funny thing is, they all seem to have short tails like Manx cats.

Butterworth is about 3k's east of George Town across the Penang Strait.

The old double deck vehicle & passenger ferries are no longer running which is a shame - we loved standing outdoors last time. The city is aiming to restore them, after over 100yrs of straits crossings, and make one into a museum and another a floating cafe.  

We had planned to walk from Butterworth port to the art trail but it was way too hot to be hiking in the mid day heat. We took a taxi and travelled in style.

The art trail is a poor cousin to the Penang Street Art trail but charming in it's own way. 

Butterworth, the small bit we saw, looks very industrial and we got the sense from the buildings and commercial area it's had hard times through Covid.

We took the return ferry to George Town and just made it in time to see the final of the FIBA '3x3' basketball finals. Both the gals and the guys finals were Japan vs China and Japan won both! It was exciting stuff and the Japan gals were just fantastic.We bumped into them post match and grabbed a picture.

We then had to leave the luxury of AC and hit the streets back to our hotel. At the point of wilting we ducked into a shop serving cakes to get 5 mins of AC and we discovered the most gorgeous interior design - such a contrast from the hot, busy street filled with people and motorbikes!

The cakes we're almost too good to eat.

We succumbed to cherry chocolate luxe and a chocolate dome which was filled with a soft mouse and nuts...both delicious!

Home again, home again jiggedy-jig and into the usual drill of whipping off our clothes, hand washing them and then having a cold showers to cool down :)