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Article: Put the wind back in your sails; Planes, trains and automobiles - along with elephants, trishaws and lux ury liners. Travel Editor Lisa Piddington takes a cruise along the Strait of Ma lacca.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1998
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I'm a great believer of the saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans". In other words, soak up the atmosphere and fit in - even if it means taking your life into your own hands.
Dashing around Penang's incredible busy road system with nothing but a metal foot rest between me and the passing motorists I couldn't help but feel I might just revise my belief in this maxim.
But as I climbed out of the trishaw - a sort of rickshaw-cum-bicycle - and checked I still had all my limbs intact before thanking my driver, I decided this was the only true way to see the ...