Slept in til 11 - hung over - watched cartoons, had brekkie
go biking, decided not to
went to beach - classic catches in atol!
waqtched ko samui gay volleyballers
saw a chick/ladyboy with fake breasts play volleyball
3 swedish women!
old guy playing volleyball
off to full moon party!
add later
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Day 15 - Nick finally gets molested!
It was a blessing in disguise not booking any accomadation before we arrived in samui. The place we had pencilled in as an option was right above a disco, but the place we ended up staying in has air con, a tv, shower with pressure and the sheets get changed every day! A little upmarket for our standards but worth the splurge at this stage of the trip anyway. Its 600 baht each!
Such was the quality of our beds and air con, we couldnt help but sleep in... so by about 11 we finally got up and sought breakfast. Was the worst brekky of the trip as the eggs were untouchable, something was seriously wrong with them (although the shake banana was good).
We decided to check out the beach and were suitably impressed with the views. Its a beautiful long beach which despite being overdeveloped is still a great place to wander around...
After walking all the way up the beach we decided to walk back down the main drag to do some shopping. It turned out that this took all day! We ended up buying sunnies, 25 dvds, 10 tshirts, 5 pants and numerous presents. Should probably have bought more as you dont get anything like this in Sydney!
Matt is slowly getting a little better at bartering, although he still doesnt have the tough streak necessary to get that extra baht off... he doesnt threaten to walk away enough!
All throughout the day the sounds of the street were broken with the recorded announcement of an impending muay thai (thai boxing) event. It was "chump versus chump, starting at 9pm, starting at 9pm, get in early, get in early, chump versus chump" etc.
After finally finishing up shopping we had to quickly get ready to head down to the Liverpool game at the Islander (the original place we had planned on watching it was closed due to a buddhist holiday). Finally found a 24 hour international call centre so was able to get onto Lana, but the 5 second delay was so annoying! Crappy thailand phone system! Walshy has gone on to the islander, but after my phone call i was in such a daze that a walked about 500 m past the pub until i realised!
Liverpool dominated but still lost to a crappy oshea injury time goal... we decided to drink away our sorrows so went to Paradise Murphys to watch the other games and have some more beer. We ended up playing pool for about 3 hours, when drunk things dont get boring as easily i guess. Eventually we decided it would be a good idea to try and get kicked out... so we began playing a hockey soccer variation with the white pool ball. After about 10 mins the manager came over, an irish bloke, and picked up the ball and calmly said it wasnot a soccer ball. He then began talking about his time in sydney and how he used to play for the irish under 16 team... not quite the scene we expected to create but good to have a chat him, was a pretty good bloke.
Was now about 2am and since maccas was accross the road we decided we had to have our thai maccas experience. the big macs, nuggets and soft serves we all similar, but what was great was the pies. They had three variations, the simple pineapple, interesting taro and oustanding (!) corn. Matt couldnt stomach the corn one but i didnt mind it too much , made for an interesting change!
At about 2.30am we began the walk home. The streets were deserted bar one thing - Heaps of lady boys who certainly werent shy. Despite matts previous attraction and affiliatoins with teh lady boys, he seemed to be invisible as they all seemed to home in on me instead this time. "herrow, you interested in me, i have very big breasts, you want blow job". To which i replied "Im not interested", when they kept coming on to me i quickly told them i had a girlfriend, to which she (he?) groped me and said "but i am here now"... made for an interesting walk home... not really one id like to experience agian...but memerable nevertheless.
Finally got to bed at 3am in confort (and thankfully not sharing my bed with any lady boys)
Nick
Such was the quality of our beds and air con, we couldnt help but sleep in... so by about 11 we finally got up and sought breakfast. Was the worst brekky of the trip as the eggs were untouchable, something was seriously wrong with them (although the shake banana was good).
We decided to check out the beach and were suitably impressed with the views. Its a beautiful long beach which despite being overdeveloped is still a great place to wander around...
After walking all the way up the beach we decided to walk back down the main drag to do some shopping. It turned out that this took all day! We ended up buying sunnies, 25 dvds, 10 tshirts, 5 pants and numerous presents. Should probably have bought more as you dont get anything like this in Sydney!
Matt is slowly getting a little better at bartering, although he still doesnt have the tough streak necessary to get that extra baht off... he doesnt threaten to walk away enough!
All throughout the day the sounds of the street were broken with the recorded announcement of an impending muay thai (thai boxing) event. It was "chump versus chump, starting at 9pm, starting at 9pm, get in early, get in early, chump versus chump" etc.
After finally finishing up shopping we had to quickly get ready to head down to the Liverpool game at the Islander (the original place we had planned on watching it was closed due to a buddhist holiday). Finally found a 24 hour international call centre so was able to get onto Lana, but the 5 second delay was so annoying! Crappy thailand phone system! Walshy has gone on to the islander, but after my phone call i was in such a daze that a walked about 500 m past the pub until i realised!
Liverpool dominated but still lost to a crappy oshea injury time goal... we decided to drink away our sorrows so went to Paradise Murphys to watch the other games and have some more beer. We ended up playing pool for about 3 hours, when drunk things dont get boring as easily i guess. Eventually we decided it would be a good idea to try and get kicked out... so we began playing a hockey soccer variation with the white pool ball. After about 10 mins the manager came over, an irish bloke, and picked up the ball and calmly said it wasnot a soccer ball. He then began talking about his time in sydney and how he used to play for the irish under 16 team... not quite the scene we expected to create but good to have a chat him, was a pretty good bloke.
Was now about 2am and since maccas was accross the road we decided we had to have our thai maccas experience. the big macs, nuggets and soft serves we all similar, but what was great was the pies. They had three variations, the simple pineapple, interesting taro and oustanding (!) corn. Matt couldnt stomach the corn one but i didnt mind it too much , made for an interesting change!
At about 2.30am we began the walk home. The streets were deserted bar one thing - Heaps of lady boys who certainly werent shy. Despite matts previous attraction and affiliatoins with teh lady boys, he seemed to be invisible as they all seemed to home in on me instead this time. "herrow, you interested in me, i have very big breasts, you want blow job". To which i replied "Im not interested", when they kept coming on to me i quickly told them i had a girlfriend, to which she (he?) groped me and said "but i am here now"... made for an interesting walk home... not really one id like to experience agian...but memerable nevertheless.
Finally got to bed at 3am in confort (and thankfully not sharing my bed with any lady boys)
Nick
Day 14 - Can you believe there was light at the end of the tunnel?
(The following account is fact, not fiction. Brace yourselves)
The boys are soldiering on, with a most luscient ambifilent hue on our trangenderent apocalyptic mosaic of gentlemenliness.
No visuals for those who are visually impaired cos you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. The braille version of this website is downloadable from www.BLOBthai07trip.blogspot.com (BLOg for the Blind). But, I guess you won't be able to read this unless you download some text to speech software such as 'Advanced Text to speech3.6'; http://www.download.com/Advanced-Text-to-Speech/3000-7239_4-10188677.html
I guess if you're actually blind and don't have the software then you're an idiot for trying to read this cos it's not possible.
Anyway, we left the girls, which is sad as they made sure we washed & ate properly. We got in a minivan, got out a minivan, got back in to different seats and then got out into a large bus all within 10 minutes. There was logic somewhere apparently. In any case we ended up in a large, air-conditioned bus with 2 seats to ourselves. Was fairly relaxing, we were able to read and play cards (met some Irish bloke called Patrick) in the back (only the cool people sit at the back of the bus). This was until we realised that by getting on the bus it probably added an extra 2 hours to the trip cos the bloody thing only went 70km/h (that's what nick said cos he was awake more). The b@st@rds sold us the wrong tickets it seems cos we were supposed to be in a minivan the whole way.
Was boring as hell but alright tho cos we got a heap of sleep but I started feeling sick so took all the tablets that were in my bag (2 diff types for some diahroea) cos i figure medicine can only make you feel better (quote unquote Matt Allan =) ) and felt better a bit later. Not quite sure what the tabs did. Indpendent of what was goin on in my body, the bouncing around in the bus made us both a bit sickly so we were happy to get out when we got to the port.
We barely made it on to the ferry cos the bus driver went down the wrong road the goose. Nick & I hogged a row of seats on the ferry cos we were both frustrated that we were about 2 hours later than we should have been.
We played some big 2 and Oh Hell - Nick's by far the best at Big2 but I claim to be the champion of Oh Hell! (These titles mean so much more than anyone can every realise).
Anyway, we eventually got to our accommodation, glad that we didn't book in advance (The boys did something right!) cos the place we would have been in overlooked a club that smashed out live music.
We eventually found an absolute palace for 1200 Baht/night - aircon, minibar, good shower & they change your sheets! No more double beds which means no spooning (damn). Thought we'd splash out cos we're not here for long and hell, it's just so cheap and we're in the latter 3rd of the trip.
But yeah aboslute palace and we're clean! (Nick pointed out this irony with the girls gone) Just nice to sleep in good beds with aircon. And cartoons! (memories of the days at Byron 2 or 3 yrs ago) - we'll have photos soon =)
We're staying in a place towards the SOuthern End of Chaweng Beach in Ko Samui, stones throw from it.
We were pretty tired but decided to go out for dinner - Had Massuman Curry at a place just down the road then off to a place called Ark Bar on the beach for a few chilled beers. Had a few kids harass us to try to play Connect 4 against them for money but after the embarassing losses in Patong to the bar chicks (though they do play every day) but we told them to swallow all the chips and we'll compete with them to try get 4 consecutive heart beats.
A bit tired, we walked back along the beach to the hotel and fell asleep pretty quickly - I've got The Beach from Nick to read, I think he fell asleep pretty quickly...
In short, nice to have a bit of luxury.
Ko Samui looks like heaps of fun - especially with the full-moon party coming up on SUnday! (Day 16).
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Walshie
The boys are soldiering on, with a most luscient ambifilent hue on our trangenderent apocalyptic mosaic of gentlemenliness.
No visuals for those who are visually impaired cos you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. The braille version of this website is downloadable from www.BLOBthai07trip.blogspot.com (BLOg for the Blind). But, I guess you won't be able to read this unless you download some text to speech software such as 'Advanced Text to speech3.6'; http://www.download.com/Advanced-Text-to-Speech/3000-7239_4-10188677.html
I guess if you're actually blind and don't have the software then you're an idiot for trying to read this cos it's not possible.
Anyway, we left the girls, which is sad as they made sure we washed & ate properly. We got in a minivan, got out a minivan, got back in to different seats and then got out into a large bus all within 10 minutes. There was logic somewhere apparently. In any case we ended up in a large, air-conditioned bus with 2 seats to ourselves. Was fairly relaxing, we were able to read and play cards (met some Irish bloke called Patrick) in the back (only the cool people sit at the back of the bus). This was until we realised that by getting on the bus it probably added an extra 2 hours to the trip cos the bloody thing only went 70km/h (that's what nick said cos he was awake more). The b@st@rds sold us the wrong tickets it seems cos we were supposed to be in a minivan the whole way.
Was boring as hell but alright tho cos we got a heap of sleep but I started feeling sick so took all the tablets that were in my bag (2 diff types for some diahroea) cos i figure medicine can only make you feel better (quote unquote Matt Allan =) ) and felt better a bit later. Not quite sure what the tabs did. Indpendent of what was goin on in my body, the bouncing around in the bus made us both a bit sickly so we were happy to get out when we got to the port.
We barely made it on to the ferry cos the bus driver went down the wrong road the goose. Nick & I hogged a row of seats on the ferry cos we were both frustrated that we were about 2 hours later than we should have been.
We played some big 2 and Oh Hell - Nick's by far the best at Big2 but I claim to be the champion of Oh Hell! (These titles mean so much more than anyone can every realise).
Anyway, we eventually got to our accommodation, glad that we didn't book in advance (The boys did something right!) cos the place we would have been in overlooked a club that smashed out live music.
We eventually found an absolute palace for 1200 Baht/night - aircon, minibar, good shower & they change your sheets! No more double beds which means no spooning (damn). Thought we'd splash out cos we're not here for long and hell, it's just so cheap and we're in the latter 3rd of the trip.
But yeah aboslute palace and we're clean! (Nick pointed out this irony with the girls gone) Just nice to sleep in good beds with aircon. And cartoons! (memories of the days at Byron 2 or 3 yrs ago) - we'll have photos soon =)
We're staying in a place towards the SOuthern End of Chaweng Beach in Ko Samui, stones throw from it.
We were pretty tired but decided to go out for dinner - Had Massuman Curry at a place just down the road then off to a place called Ark Bar on the beach for a few chilled beers. Had a few kids harass us to try to play Connect 4 against them for money but after the embarassing losses in Patong to the bar chicks (though they do play every day) but we told them to swallow all the chips and we'll compete with them to try get 4 consecutive heart beats.
A bit tired, we walked back along the beach to the hotel and fell asleep pretty quickly - I've got The Beach from Nick to read, I think he fell asleep pretty quickly...
In short, nice to have a bit of luxury.
Ko Samui looks like heaps of fun - especially with the full-moon party coming up on SUnday! (Day 16).
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Walshie
Thursday, March 1, 2007
This is the end, my friend
It is our last day in Thailand, Lucy and I are sitting in the backpackers in Phuket waiting to leave for our flights outta here. We farewelled the boys this morning, and with tears welling up in our eyes, we stood on the street, in our pyjamas ( me in my gorgeous rubber duckie boxers) and watched as the mini-van disappeared down the street.
Feeling the loss of half of our team we have decided to be nostalgic and recap on the good times and the not so good times of this trip. Dont worry, we will have visuals for those of you who are visually challenged.
It seems poetic that my last blog shall also be my first, however, I will have the support of Lucy to get me through this posting and hopefully the two of us combined will paint a more objective recount of this trip than the boys have done on previous postings.
So lets get on with the tale:
First lets introduce our characters and their individual attributes they brought to this trip;
Lucy, ahh lucy, well what can we say about lucy. Always lovable, wants only to please the group and keeps up the group morale by contastantly getting sick off the food we eat. If it wasn't for Lucy we would not have a single food poisoning story. Now we have hundreds!
AJ- the token Asian (she's half Japanese you know), always ready to barter for the equivalent of 20 cents....and confront the boys on any and every issue.....She's the only one that made anything happen on this trip with her alpha female personality she was more of a man than the boys....
In defense I was only trying to keep the trip politically correct!
Nic...see body shots posted further down on this page. he was definately our pretty boy
Matt.. the man that created the funny/creepy events on the trip. Must be his personality or something but freaks were drawn to matt, whether it be ladyboys, persistent store sellers, vomitting/defacating animals the lot. Thank god for Matt and his pheremones!
okay... on retrospect, it is taking way to long to download photos, and considering the boys have kept a somewhat good account of what we have done, and my incompetence and lack of patience with technology; instead we are going to put of a photo essay of the time in between.
Things we remember/shall NEVER forget;
The bodies....
And of course the boobs...
Note: see previous entry for cleavage shot of Lucy's assets
The crazy tuk tuk rides; dangerous but ohh so fun!
The drinking..... okay lets be fair, Matt, Nic and I drinking and Lucy watching. Harsh but fair! That's only because I was afraid my drink would be spiked by AJ.....and everyone knows I am a true Cadbury....
The sleeping.....don't the boys look cosy and way too comfortable!
And of course Matt in a sarong.....because he really just wanted to be a girl....
Hope everyone enjoyed our rendition of the trip. Brief but beautiful all the same. same same but different.
To the boys; dont get raped in ko samui. huddle close to each other at night, just to be safe.
Love you guys
Lucy and Anjuli (AJ)
day 13/morning of 14....(I think)
it's 1.40am. It is impossible to sleep....four trillion degrees...110% humidity.....
AJ and the boys went out tonight to Patong beach, just near Phuket town to see a ping-pong show and have some dinner. I'm looking forward to them uploading photos of that!! My stomach is still recovering from the cooking experience (maybe I'm not the chef I thought I was...) and so i stayed back at the hostel to watch a movie and attempt to get an early night.
Yesterday we did nothing-quite literally. The morning was spent on the internet- sometimes i think we all spend more time on the internet than actually doing anything!! Looking to book the next few days of our trips. I got a flight to bangkok from phuket but failed to find accomodation nearby that I'm willing to pay for- I'm even more of a stinge when dealing in baht! so am looking forward to a fun few hours sleeping in bangkok airport :) The boys researched options for getting to koh samui/pha nang for the full moon party- but of course made no decisions and booked nothing :) AJ, fed up by our indecisions, read by the pool..... In the afternoon we headed over to long beach (because the boys are incapable of doing something new!) where the others got a massage again, while I lay in a bungalow drinking pineapple juice and reading. Matt was massaged by a lady boy.... and despite what he might say- he loved it! ;)
we racked up quite a bill from drinking banana chi chis? and martinis that were well below par according to resident barchick AJ. headed to Mr Wee's for another pizza dinner.....
AJ and I crashed pretty early and the boys headed out in search of shitcat- I'll leave that explanation up to them!
This morning we caught a ferry over to phuket....my stomach played up again so all I've done is stay at the hostel- wild I know! so I'll let the others fill you in on their adventures today. And the girls (matt and nick) can tell you all about their shopping expeditions...
off to bangkok tomorrow to fly out early the following morning and AJs off to KL.....then it's up to the boys to party hard at full moon party :)
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lucy
AJ and the boys went out tonight to Patong beach, just near Phuket town to see a ping-pong show and have some dinner. I'm looking forward to them uploading photos of that!! My stomach is still recovering from the cooking experience (maybe I'm not the chef I thought I was...) and so i stayed back at the hostel to watch a movie and attempt to get an early night.
Yesterday we did nothing-quite literally. The morning was spent on the internet- sometimes i think we all spend more time on the internet than actually doing anything!! Looking to book the next few days of our trips. I got a flight to bangkok from phuket but failed to find accomodation nearby that I'm willing to pay for- I'm even more of a stinge when dealing in baht! so am looking forward to a fun few hours sleeping in bangkok airport :) The boys researched options for getting to koh samui/pha nang for the full moon party- but of course made no decisions and booked nothing :) AJ, fed up by our indecisions, read by the pool..... In the afternoon we headed over to long beach (because the boys are incapable of doing something new!) where the others got a massage again, while I lay in a bungalow drinking pineapple juice and reading. Matt was massaged by a lady boy.... and despite what he might say- he loved it! ;)
we racked up quite a bill from drinking banana chi chis? and martinis that were well below par according to resident barchick AJ. headed to Mr Wee's for another pizza dinner.....
AJ and I crashed pretty early and the boys headed out in search of shitcat- I'll leave that explanation up to them!
This morning we caught a ferry over to phuket....my stomach played up again so all I've done is stay at the hostel- wild I know! so I'll let the others fill you in on their adventures today. And the girls (matt and nick) can tell you all about their shopping expeditions...
off to bangkok tomorrow to fly out early the following morning and AJs off to KL.....then it's up to the boys to party hard at full moon party :)
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lucy
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Day 8-13 - Ko Lanta and Phuket Town
Day 8 - went to ko lanta from krabi by boat. argued with people at bungalows. Decided to stay. Love it! Went to great bar with bungalows overlookign the water and sunset - beautiful.Walshy and I went for run. Had pizza. Watched soccer.
Day 9 - Shake banana. Went elephant trekking in the afternoon. Went to Long beach again to have beers/cocktails on the beach/sunset. Walshy and I went for run. Had pizza.
Day 10 - Lazy day. Walshy, AJ and I had thai massage in arvo. AJ/Luce had big troubles booking flight. Went to hut bungalow bar on our beach. Had pizza. Chilled out at bar playing cards etc.
Day 11 - thai cooking class in the morning. We are all now experts. Lazed around in arvo... Had dinner at our resort with leftovers. Watched fire show.
Day 12 organised stuff in morning. went to long beach in arvo, had many cocktails and beers. Had another thai massage + walshy got his from a lady boy who fell for him immediately. Went for another run. Had pizza at mr wees. Lazed around on beach. Matt and I went to give shit cat a sacrificial mackerel to fare him well as we ventured off to other islands. Our gift was much appreciated and we will never forget him.
Day 13 ferry early in the morning to phi phi for a mid water change on to a ferry to phuket. Quickly got transferred to a really well set up backpackers place in phuket town. Went shopping very briefly as there wasnt all that much to chose from. Had siesta. All except lucy went to patong beach to see what it was like ... was very interestin!
Much more detail to come. this is so we don't forget!
nick
Day 9 - Shake banana. Went elephant trekking in the afternoon. Went to Long beach again to have beers/cocktails on the beach/sunset. Walshy and I went for run. Had pizza.
Day 10 - Lazy day. Walshy, AJ and I had thai massage in arvo. AJ/Luce had big troubles booking flight. Went to hut bungalow bar on our beach. Had pizza. Chilled out at bar playing cards etc.
Day 11 - thai cooking class in the morning. We are all now experts. Lazed around in arvo... Had dinner at our resort with leftovers. Watched fire show.
Day 12 organised stuff in morning. went to long beach in arvo, had many cocktails and beers. Had another thai massage + walshy got his from a lady boy who fell for him immediately. Went for another run. Had pizza at mr wees. Lazed around on beach. Matt and I went to give shit cat a sacrificial mackerel to fare him well as we ventured off to other islands. Our gift was much appreciated and we will never forget him.
Day 13 ferry early in the morning to phi phi for a mid water change on to a ferry to phuket. Quickly got transferred to a really well set up backpackers place in phuket town. Went shopping very briefly as there wasnt all that much to chose from. Had siesta. All except lucy went to patong beach to see what it was like ... was very interestin!
Much more detail to come. this is so we don't forget!
nick
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Day 6 - Kong Island and surrounds
After dinner on day 5 we had been accosted on thh way back from the markets by a bar guy who assured us that he would show the champions league game between Liverpool and Barcelona at 2.45pm, so we went down to his bar only the find he was just closig up. On the way we ran into two 'fighting' cats. the fight seemed to be mental, as they rested their heads together adn constantly made this 'harroooooow' like noise. Ask walshy for the video - it is gold. this made the trip down to the pub worthwhile.
Nick
Nevertheless , we were able to watch it at our hostel after we showed the girls how electricity works. Safe to say - LIVERPOOL RULE!!! 2-1 victors at barcelona - can't complain.
During the day we went to kong island. It probably took about an hour or so to get there on a largish boat that smoothly cut through the water. the entry point in to hong island was a nice lagoon area which was pretty picuresque, although the water was not as clear as some we were to see at other islands.
We kayaked 1st. Although we didnt get to kayak up any caves, which for some reason we all expected, we did get to go all the way around the island and including kayaking up into a lagoon for a swim for a while. The kayaking was good fun. We had team 'same same', consisting of Lucy and I, and team 'but different', which was Matt and AJ. the part that was different was probably their slow pace...
After the kayaking we got to 'snorkel' around the original lagoon. there some small schools of fish but the water wasn't very clear so you cuoldnt see that far and it was largely dissapointing. neverthless, just being in the water is great in thailand!
In short, most of us got burnt - AJ just stayed the same colour. we crashed pretty early cause of all the burn. See picture.
Nick
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Day 5 - Down in Krabi
Have decided to come and update to today (27th of something isnt it?). Bit lazy of us but weve been sitting on a beach downing cocktails and pizza so i dun think we can be blamed
I figure that these post write-ups will probably be a tad brief.
Anyway, we woke up late because we had been up on the roof of the hostel til late. Nick and i decided we would try sleep on the hostel roof which has a view of this
We got a bt sick of it mostly I guess because we sobered up but also cos the mozzies used us as their personal food-bank. The roof has a great view over the town and has a supposed bar but nobody ever went up there.
In the morning we woke up late and decided to splash out on breakfast for teh first time - downstairs had a gourmet 100 Baht (4 bucks) for allyoucaneat but when we paid for it we realised that it was cheap not because this country is cheap but because to eat even 4 bucks worth would have caused us to throw up enough to make a bulimic think we were gross.
Oh yeah - the thais have a weird sense of what an orange is. So OJ is completely off the agenda unless you get some imported from a supermarket.
After we had the brekkie we walked down to the local travel agents to negotiate our plans for the next few days. We walked in, I broke the guy's ashtray and we walked out with a few days travel with tours and a free packet of chips/sandwiches. We had spent most of the morning doing this and hadn't yet since landing seen a beach yet so we went off to rent some mopeds. We walked in and saw some bloke with a huge gash on his leg and half a foot so we rented a car =) ended up with this manual jeep so we all crammed in and went off to samesamebutdifferent.
We were a bit tentative about getting on the road at all cos the drivers here are crazy and play a continual game of darwinist chicken. I was confident we could make a few Thai pancakes along the way
The girls jumped in the back and we caned it down the roads. Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that I didn't have a license on me because I'd lost it in Aus and nobody else could drive manual. So we were ilegally driving in a country with a better than average chance of crashing - hey parents! =)
We got to the beach and it was amazing - great to actually cool down as well - also nice to see at least one hot presumably swedish tourist.
Had a swim in the water which was knee deep for about 100m - all the way out to the closest island you can see! We had lunch there as well (pad thai of course), and drove off home.
Perhaps may go through Malaysia on the way home but we'll see how Thai Airways'll take it.
After we dropped the car back we saw that there was the Champions League game Liverpool v Barca! WIll definitely wake up to see that! Is on at a Western-themed bar down the road so we'll get to sleep early to watch that!
Still haven't heard from Josh!!
Walshie
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Choke yourself then
It really doesn't bother me if you choke yourself... after all - you eating pad thai 4 nights in a row is really a bit much for the palate. The juicy, flavoursome noodles deserve a better use...
Nick - aka 'Don'.
Nick - aka 'Don'.
Day 4 eveing
The post before is nick
Just cos we are sharing a double bed tongith he has put a few shots in my drink & thinks he's gonna get some action. actually maybe if he does that whole rocky thing
The dinner was BS - it took far too long
AJ had a weird issue with us crashing her 'pee spot' - chased her round for a while - as I have said before she is 'too cool ' for this blog.
I just think that she has trouble peeing under pressure. I guess it didn't help that we wanted to hug & tapew her whilst she did it.
I also thingk that John Howard's stance on neo-conservative Environmental issues re: Tasmanin rainforest conservation as very pre-conversationalist & need evaluation in the current politicval context. Economic conse3rvatism is outdated in a post-neo but resolute and resurgent Leninist general economist consensus but worthwhile nonetheless.
Please don't stop reading this crap just because we got drunk on Krabi tonight.
Don if you post after me I will choke myself on Pad Thai.
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Walshie
Just cos we are sharing a double bed tongith he has put a few shots in my drink & thinks he's gonna get some action. actually maybe if he does that whole rocky thing
The dinner was BS - it took far too long
AJ had a weird issue with us crashing her 'pee spot' - chased her round for a while - as I have said before she is 'too cool ' for this blog.
I just think that she has trouble peeing under pressure. I guess it didn't help that we wanted to hug & tapew her whilst she did it.
I also thingk that John Howard's stance on neo-conservative Environmental issues re: Tasmanin rainforest conservation as very pre-conversationalist & need evaluation in the current politicval context. Economic conse3rvatism is outdated in a post-neo but resolute and resurgent Leninist general economist consensus but worthwhile nonetheless.
Please don't stop reading this crap just because we got drunk on Krabi tonight.
Don if you post after me I will choke myself on Pad Thai.
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Walshie
Walshie - the pretender
He has no idea what he is talking about... he spen thte entire day in a shroud of mist anyway
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Day 4 - Bangkok to Krabi - With Nick, but no Josh
Day four began a little too early... perhaps because a certian someone decided to set the thermostat on the air conditioner at a ridiculously hot 28 degrees. We could have had a cruisy night at a temperate sydney climate but instead our 'air conditioner' was probably raising the temperature for us... made for a sweaty, long night... especially with a bunch of americans leaving our dorm at 6am ( i assume walshy is talking about last night).
So, after little sleep we attacked the day with much ferociousness (does this sound drunk - cause i am). We eventually had an 'american reakfast' involving bacon, egg, 'orange' juice (which tasted mroe likea combination of mandarin and a bunch of chemicals) and some fried spam. Delicious...
We then decided to cab it (a very inexpensive pastime in thaland) to the nearest 'phalus' monument (the ladies were getting very excited). It was a very entertaining cab ride where the cabby elaborated on his few english phrases. If something was similar it was 'same same'. He also loved the word 'finish', although i dont think he knew what it meant.
Anyway.... after this cab ride we eventually made it to an expensive hotel where we pretended to be clients for a while and eventually were directed to a very remote little corner of the establishment which happened to have a 'shrine' amongst the bushes. This shrine contained many a 'phalus', such that walshy was very embarrased... he really couldn't compete withthe 3m long one - frankly i dont blame him...one even had emu egg sized balls.
So, after little sleep we attacked the day with much ferociousness (does this sound drunk - cause i am). We eventually had an 'american reakfast' involving bacon, egg, 'orange' juice (which tasted mroe likea combination of mandarin and a bunch of chemicals) and some fried spam. Delicious...
We then decided to cab it (a very inexpensive pastime in thaland) to the nearest 'phalus' monument (the ladies were getting very excited). It was a very entertaining cab ride where the cabby elaborated on his few english phrases. If something was similar it was 'same same'. He also loved the word 'finish', although i dont think he knew what it meant.
Anyway.... after this cab ride we eventually made it to an expensive hotel where we pretended to be clients for a while and eventually were directed to a very remote little corner of the establishment which happened to have a 'shrine' amongst the bushes. This shrine contained many a 'phalus', such that walshy was very embarrased... he really couldn't compete withthe 3m long one - frankly i dont blame him...one even had emu egg sized balls.We next hit the 'grand palace' and surrounding monuments/buddhas. I think this is where the king, his wife and extended family live, although it looked more like a place a worship than a place of living to me. We took many a tourist photo at these temples and even sat and worshipped the buddha for a while...(my dislocated shoulder struggled in these positions of worship). 
Walshy and I had to hire long pants so as to display our respect for the buddha and the king's regime (i assume) otherwise we wouldn't have been allowed entry.
Walshy and I had to hire long pants so as to display our respect for the buddha and the king's regime (i assume) otherwise we wouldn't have been allowed entry. We then (eventually) were able to convince a cabby to drive us back to our hostel to pick up our bags and then on to the airport. The two trips probably took about 90 mins and comprised 30 or more kilometres, but only cost us the equivalent of 5 bucks each. Such a tough life here in thaland. So we made it to the airport in time to catch our flight (we were a bit worried we weren't going to make it for a while) and then sought some lunch (it was 4pm). Amazingly, at a newly established airport, we were unable to find any food except for a 'casual restaurent' which involved sitting down for an extensive period of time.... so we ended up lunching on jatz, crisps and oreos from a newsagent... a backpapers dream.
The flight on 'nok' air - maybe nok means beak - was uneventful.... we got to Krabi, the linking point to ko phi phi and other islands.
The flight on 'nok' air - maybe nok means beak - was uneventful.... we got to Krabi, the linking point to ko phi phi and other islands.
Lucy decided to have a quiet night as Walshy, AJ and I went down to the local market. It took them about 75 mins to serve us dinner (during which we have some very entertaining and illumionating conversations...(whatever that means). We managed to get a few free beers due to their lack of efficient service. I think they confused our order with another table and completely forgot about us!! So now here we are... at a local internet cafe writing about the day's events... if only we had the dedication to do this every day... i doubt this is going to happen.
Post blogging, Walshy and I decided it would be a great idea to sleep on the roof. I was'nt too uncomfortable, but in the end it was probably a good idea to head inside - the mosquitoes would have given us hell.
Nick
My interpretation of the 3rd day
I spent soooooo long posting up those photos & Luce stole the thunder! argh!Well I guess 'what she said' - but was so much more!
She had the day listed in reverse. We took a train & water-taxi to the temple to see some boring things.. ( last photo). We saw heaps of derelict houses along the way (2nd last photo) - on a nice ride tho - then had lunch (weird pad thai btw - never eat there - doesn't deserve a 'hat').
That's the 3rd last photo. Was next to the river so we thought we'd eat there. Was really weird pad thai tho! We looked around the souveneir shop & found nothign interesting - actually i saw chopsticks but couldn't afford them.We were at Wat Po (Apparently gives you 'good luck & prosperity) and I grabbed aphoto of AJ in front of these tower things.
It was me who came up with the name 'hannibal dog' btw! I chased him for 30m to get the photo!!!!!
But yeah afterward we all went out at night after Dowse arrived at the hostel @ 6 to Kao Sahn Rd. To be honest it was disappointing relative to what we4 had experienced otherwise. Very few clubs/bars & just the same as all other bangkok. We stayed a while in this Irish Bar & Nick & I went home to play some football in the street with Gustav (for those in the know).
Little-did-we-know that AJ came in to our room & turned the thermos up to 28C from 25C! We had very little sleep that night esp with the Americans we were in the room with going in & out all the time (we think they are g@y).We woke up & the day turned to # 4. Nick wants to solely write about it which is fine - will be interesting to see what was written when we are all sober =) )
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Walshie
She had the day listed in reverse. We took a train & water-taxi to the temple to see some boring things.. ( last photo). We saw heaps of derelict houses along the way (2nd last photo) - on a nice ride tho - then had lunch (weird pad thai btw - never eat there - doesn't deserve a 'hat').
That's the 3rd last photo. Was next to the river so we thought we'd eat there. Was really weird pad thai tho! We looked around the souveneir shop & found nothign interesting - actually i saw chopsticks but couldn't afford them.We were at Wat Po (Apparently gives you 'good luck & prosperity) and I grabbed aphoto of AJ in front of these tower things.
It was me who came up with the name 'hannibal dog' btw! I chased him for 30m to get the photo!!!!!
But yeah afterward we all went out at night after Dowse arrived at the hostel @ 6 to Kao Sahn Rd. To be honest it was disappointing relative to what we4 had experienced otherwise. Very few clubs/bars & just the same as all other bangkok. We stayed a while in this Irish Bar & Nick & I went home to play some football in the street with Gustav (for those in the know).
Little-did-we-know that AJ came in to our room & turned the thermos up to 28C from 25C! We had very little sleep that night esp with the Americans we were in the room with going in & out all the time (we think they are g@y).We woke up & the day turned to # 4. Nick wants to solely write about it which is fine - will be interesting to see what was written when we are all sober =) )
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Walshie
Monday, February 19, 2007
3 day - tried to find Josh & seeing the sights
For some reason the pictures are backwards and I'm not computer savvy enough to figure out how to change it- I'll let matt do that tomorrow. So read from the bottom up...
AJ tried to teach us to Salsa, but I was a bit drunk at this stage and Dowsley...well he's a boy so dancing isn't really his forte- though he claims he was bad because she was leading....
AJ tried to teach us to Salsa, but I was a bit drunk at this stage and Dowsley...well he's a boy so dancing isn't really his forte- though he claims he was bad because she was leading....
This disgusting looking concotion is the reason I wasn't able to learn how to salsa! Who sells alcohol in a bucket?! Or really who drinks alcohol from a bucket?! 
Dowsley arrived at about six, thought still no sign of Josh! After a quick dinner at the street stalls, we visited Khao San Rd- the apparent mecca for tourists out for a big night in thailand. Odd place- barely any Asian people but plenty of english blokes! After a night out I was laughin hysterically on the ground and a motorbike almost ran me over. Matt whispered under his breath but unfortunately the driver understood english and was ready for a fight. Most thai guys matt would be able to take on....but this guy was huge and he was lucky to talk his way out of it!
This is what a 3L beer tower and a bucket of alcohol will do!! Spent the night in an Irish pub on Khao San Rd listening to a thai band do covers of american songs.
"Hannibal" dog at Wat Arun.....Matt chased after him to get a photo- "he can't bite me with that thing on anyway!" 
On the ferry on the way to Wat Arun, seen in the background. We met a Monk on the ferry on the way there. Very cute little man who said he had been a monk for 10 years. AJ was also followed by some thai law student who thought she was thai too....
At Wat Pho....with AJ looking very comtemplative
Dropping coins into bowls at Wat Pho. It's meant to bring you luck and prosperity.....here's me thinking happy thoughts :)
The giant reclining Buddha in Wat Pho. 42m long!! Oddly enough- people come here to pray while a whole bunch of tourists wander around taking photos...
Having lunch before visiting Wat Pho. AJ being a devil....
Having lunch on the river before seeing Wat Pho. Wat Arun is in the background. 
One of the billion shanty houses on the edge of the river. The standard of living for some people in thailand is so poor- marked even more by the fact that a few feet down from shanty houses like this are hotels like the shangri-la!
On the ferry on the way to Wat Pho
Leaving tomorrow to fly down to Krabi- looking forward to getting out of the pollution!
Luce
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