Chaweng Tara Resort

... br>I will take the 6 or 7 am bus to Bangkok on Tuesday , go to the Indian school interview first, then the Andrew Biggs interview, stay over and return Wednesday. I'm hoping to take the night train to Chiang Mai maybe next Monday/Tuesday and check out some schools there. If apples are apples, I'd prefer to teach up north.

Or maybe not teach at all. I mean if the best they can offer me is 30k baht, maybe I should just take my show on the road.

... s coffee pot. As our boat left again, I was hurling abuse at the smug woman, standing on the port next to the policemen, the other foreigners on the boat joined in as did a few Thai’s onboard. Its one thing getting taken for a ride by a Thai person, but when it’s a another foreigner, it ****** you off even more!

I have to say it was a very surreal feeling arriving in Chiang Mai, this amazing city that I now call home. I spent the next few days with mum and Abheer ...

... has everything that you could possibly need from cheap 30B food to McDonalds and starbucks, 7-11 and a Tesco. There are plenty of bars with happy hour for fairly cheap drinks, though this is deffinately not a cheap town.
We have made friends with the local reggae bar staff, who are also the islands best fire dancers


Also the lady boy show was really, really good. Its free o ...

... the street sellers found us! We could have have ice cream, corn on the cob, tribal hats, sunglasses, jewellery, ink tattoo's, and our picture with a monkey.......................we had the ice cream! So just about to go home to freshen up, then head out for the night. Going to be staying here till about Wednesday, then get the boat over to Koh Phangan, for the famous full moon party on the beach on the 12th Stuart & Kellie

... a sudden craving for eggs. It pained me to imagine that the eggs would re-induce the vomit fest I had celebrated earlier, but I clenched my stomach and took the dive. You can just imagine how relieved I was when I actually shat solid and kept my food within the various parts of my digestive system. So, Just like I had promised myself while I was keeled over the balcony of my room excreting the neon yellow bile for the 4th time, we moved to a nicer hotel ...

A quick ferry boat and we were off to another paradise island, Ko Samui! Cardill and myself held the fort and sat in the shade drinking coffee while the lads ran around in the heat looking for accomodation! Fair play they got a brand new hotel and we spent a while taking the plastic off the tv, dvd player and trying out the brand new showers and wet room. Fab. Met up with Adam & Liz again and had a monster pool night with an Asian ...

... fruit, and he would peel it and cut it up for you. We had mangos, which were so much better than back home. It cost just over a dollar each for the mangos. We went for dinner, which was so cheap and so good! There were a lot of dogs around, even a pitbull and a rottweiler, so we fed them our leftovers. After dinner Carl was pretty tired, being jet lagged and all, so he went to bed early. We hung out with Hal, just talking and ...

-Bus problems. Bus time scheduled to leave 9:30. Called to verify at 7:30. Agent said nine. 10 minutes later travel agent called saying downstairs. Scrambled down stairs to get on bus. -Norwegians met on bus, some very good looking. -Norwegians shut down. -Two irish people get on board, Kathy and Lee, from another tour bus. He sold mobile phones, she was a masseuse ...

... I also did not get offered any kind of job on the spot as most people do. I t is also hard for an employer to get a hold of me cause I have no cell phone or a current address. Most places want you to sign a one year contract and I do not want to be here that long. Monday I was pretty much trying to stay positive but at the same time I could feel the tears in my eyes starting to fall several times that day. I did my best to keep them and myself under control ...

... what they were exactly :) I've uploaded a couple of photos of Bilbo II, who sadly (although not entirely unexpectedly) passed away after spending a day with us :( He seemed to be doing well, flapping about & chirping, but I was unable to persuade him to eat much :( There are also a couple of pictures of more frogs from the water barrel :) I love getting updates, and I wish those of you who are going on a well-deserved holiday a wonderful time!