internet here is stupidly expensive so sorry again for our lack of communication. we are still alive and have just got back from getting tatoos!! They are so cool i love mine. It's a brand new lyric along the bottom of my foot in thai. and yes i know it definately says what I want it to and not 'i'm an idiot' or something because we have checked it with numerous thai people. Hurt so so much though it felt like they were sawing into my bone at one point.
ok so back to aaages ago when we were on koh pha ngan. We rode around on bikes the rest of that day and lost bella and nina. Met up with them again at Amersterdam Bar on the west coast which is brilliant. It's really high up and you have a panoramic view of the sea and the sunset. Then we probably went and got drunk same as most nights on Pha Ngan. Some quite eventful nights: mike getting horrifly drunk and then depressed and then trying to buy drugs off some scary looking thai man while i tried to fight him off and persuade mike that life would be ok he just needed to stop drinking, the guy who i thought was gay until he took me off to a corner of a beach and got naked, so I ran away back to one of my friends rooms, who had a boy in there so i wasn't really welcome, then found out the not gay boy and all of his friends lived opposite nina, livia and bellas room and laughed at me lots the next day, various sleezy men hitting on all of us and then full moon... the biggest let down ever. Just rubbish really. Exactly the same music (literally, in the same order as all of the other nights, nothing particularly different going on just some more people and a lot more rave paint. Mike and I got a bit cynical and felt a bit old but had a lovely time slagging off other people. If you're thinking of going: full moon is like a rave for people who's parents wouldn't let them go to raves. It's pretty tame and crap. Half moon is awsome, do that instead. We were really glad to leave pha ngan in the end, just spent far too much time there and it's just a bit samey. Caught a boat and a series of buses to Nai Yang beach which is a bit north of Phuket.
Nai Yang was brilliant. We went with Nina and Livia and met Jade from Real Gap there. There were huge rolling waves which we spent all day playing in and being knocked over by and a brilliant Thai food market with delicious currys. Stayed there for two days chilling out and giving our bodies a rest from drinking. Then caught a ferry over to Phi Phi.
On Phi Phi we stayed at Golden Hill bungalows which were really good. Payed four hundered baht for a lovely clean room. But the best bit is dave the manager. He's so helpful and gave us a tour and told us good places to eat. First day we chilled out, went to some of the bars on the beach in the evening but they were rubbish compared to Tao and Pha Ngan so didn't stay out that late. Next day we did the snorkelling tour which was ace we had such a good time. Got to go to some really quiet beautiful beaches and snrkelling we saw more fish than we had diving in ko Tao. Livia made us all get naked again swimming in a cove on Phi Phi Ley. Mike, Livia and I jumped off a 20m cliff which was terrifying but so cool, made my day. Gave me a terrible wedgie though. Went and sat on Maya Beach in the evening where they filmed The Beach and had a little explore in the jungley bit behind and then went back. And walking back through town to our bungalow I bumped into the guy I got with in Ko Tao. I don't want to me horrible about someone on the internet using their real name so lets call him "Paul" as he features a ridiculous amount in the next weeks tales. So I met him and he was lovely as he had been in all of the emails saying that he wanted to meet me. Arranged to meet him that night and got on really well. The next day the girls all left which was really hard. I'd been with Nina everday for the past 6 weeks, and Mike and I had been travelling with other people for ages so was really hard to be on our own again. We didn't do much, lay about on the beach and watched the sunset. Bumped into Ash and Lee who we met in Vietnam on the beach and went out for a drink with them that evening. Also bumped into Paul again and arranged to meet up. But he never turned up. Went and knocked for him and he didn't answer. Thought all this was a bit wierd so went and got drunk with Mike and a pretty scary guy who said he was minted and a formula 3000 driver and begged me to go back to his room. Didn't go back to his room. Oh and mike pulled a fit girl and hasn't stopped going on about it since. The next day we left Phi Phi. Oh one last thing, on Phi Phi there is an amazing restaurant called Papaya. The portions are massive you can share them between 2 or three and its just the best thai food ever.
So we left Phi Phi and caught a boat to Railay. Stayed on Railay East (the cheap side) at Lampraya (?) which is a bit basic but 200B a room. The bungalows are like semi detached, so 2 share one balcony and hammock. So we're sitting on our balcony, mike lying in the hammock chilling out when who turns up but Paul, who it turns out is our next door neighbour. Bit awkward as he'd stood me up the night before and left without saying goodbye. Nobody really knew what to do so we went and got beers and got drunk together. Had a really good night. He reged me again though.
Mext day it started monsooning and didn't stop for 3 days. Mike and I went and had a little explore and Railay looks really pretty (the west side is stupidly expensive) but no one was really about and the rain just made us feel a bit low. Kept bumping into Paul. I think he thought we were stalking him. I think he thought we were massively wierd. There are some nice cheap places to eat on the very end of Railay East so we stayed around there. That night Paul bought more beer and mike and I bought a bottle of whiskey. Proceeded to get very drunk. I have some very wierd pictures of mike and paul hugging in a hammock. Mike then did his classic crash and burn and went to bed. I persuaded will it would be fun to go out so we went to the bar next door. Someone thought we were a couple, paul got terrified and ran off and wouldn't talk to me for the rest of the night. I met a lovely irish guy called phil who told me paul was a twat and I was beautiful. We stayed up till 6am chatting. He was awsome. He walked me home and yelled at pauls room and woke mike up so mike thinks he's an idiot.
Next day it was still raining. I was pretty ill and slept all day and night. Mike sewed badges onto his bag. In the evening he met up with ash and lee. paul promised to come down and meet them and didn't show up. standard. Next day I knew paul was leaving and finally ending the awkwardness so i stayed in bed till i though he was gone. Went outside and he was lying on the chair like he was waiting for us to say goodbye, which seemed nice as we had got to know him quite well over those 3 days. Said good morning, went and had a shower and when I came back he had gone. So never said goodbye., Very strange. We decided to leave and go over to Ton Sai as we were bored of Railay in the rain. Went and sat on Railay west for a while waiting for a boat that would take us for a reasonable price. Sitting there I saw paul. Headed over to say goodbye and wish him a good trip, he saw me, stood up and walked off the other way. He is the wierdest and rudest persom. Luckily that's the last time we saw him, good riddance. Was feeling pretty low by this point having been reged for being friends as well so very glad to leave Railay. Got soaked on the boat over to ton sai, and cheked into Mambo bungalows which are pretty nice.
Ton Sai was ok. In high season it's probably really fun but in low season and drizzle it's a bit dead. There's a nice restaurant on the sea fron that does free pancake rolls though. We went and gave Kate's letter to her man in small world bar and hung out there with an idiot old hippy traveller who was wasting his life. Spent lots of time chilling out at our listening to music and reading. Had some really lovely food. I will miss thai food it's so good. Weather cheered up yesterday and the cliffs around the beach really are amazing. I can't believe people climb them they look stupidly high. This morning we sat on the beach for aaages waiting for a boat to take us to Ao Nang. Got here and checked into J Mansion which is soooo lovely, so much better than the bungalows that we've been used to. Amd just went and got our tatoos!! That's about it so far. We are catching a bus to Penang in Malyasia tomorrow so that will be the end of Thailand. It's been brilliant but I am ready to leave. I think we've been here, particularly the southern islands for a bit too long and I'm bored of doing nothing. We have been planning Australia and I can't wait for that and our campervan! xx
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