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