Chaweng Tara Resort

... down in English for me. I must say I'm kind of proud of myself - since Thais so gracious and helpful, they system never fails. <br><br>I read online that Andrew Biggs is sort of a local celebrity - radio host, writer, etc., and lo and behold, there in the Sunday paper was a funny op-ed piece by him about getting a Thai driver's license. Once again, I'm not sure if I want to go the language school route, the hours are long, the curriculum is canned.<br><br>I ...

... my blood no more but that it more than likely was, as I was still finding it hard to hold my head up in the doctors chair. <br><br>Back to the day after I got sick. &#8230;I started to feel a abit better when I received a phone call from my mother who had just arrived in Thailand saying I should meet her and her partner in Ko Samet the next day for a week of recharging the batteries. It is as I remember from living in Asia before, that always around the six week mark that I need to take ...

... 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.<br>We have made friends with the local reggae bar staff, who are also the islands best fire dancers<br> <br><br>Also the lady boy show was really, really good. Its free o ...

... home, repeat. It was easy living. Our biggest problem was that Jep's, our regular restaurant, were hilariously inefficient. An average meal would result in an average of 3 mess ups by the staff, and would often take up to two hours. Not a huge number of talking points from these few days, other than standard night out laughs. Jay and Pancake arrived to join us for a day or two, which was cool if slightly surreal. When I left home I hadn't expected to see any ...

... 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 &amp; Kellie

... longer, but all good things have to come to an end and I need to return to Bangkok for my hospital appointment. So back to the craziness of Khao San road for me. After returning to the capital, I booked myself into the same hotel as my last visit to Bangkok and spend the evening watching a live band in a bar. I will visit the hospital tomorrow evening, fingers crossed the doctor gives me the all clear to move onto Cambodia, country number eight!

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 &amp; Liz again and had a monster pool night with an Asian ...

We spent four days at Ko Samet Island - it was about 4&amp;1/2 hours (inc bus &amp; ferry) south of Bangkok. Not too far at all really. Can easily understand why it's a bit of a getaway spot for Thai folk too. It's also a national park, but Thai national parks aren't exactly the same as 'National Parks' back home; lots of development right along the beach and heaps of rubbish littered...Although luckily no skyscrapers;-) Regardless of the litter, the area we ...

... would be easy and I would have not problem. I first had to find a place to stay cause I need a single room and Katie and I were staying in a double. I got out my handy Thailand book.. I found some places that I wanted to stay that would be low cost and close to the skytrain. I decided to get a taxi this time cause it was pretty much hell trying to get my bags up and down the skytrain stair on Saturday. My taxi driver however did not know where he was going and ...

... but a good week. I really like were I am living. It is a small town but I enjoy it. We are making friends with the local Thais and it is nice to not be overwhelmed in a big city, plus we are right on the coast and I love that.The water is right down the street from my house.I live at school which is going well. My parent have sent my computer. So once I get that, I have free wireless at school and we be able to chat more. This weekend This weekend Katie ...