Imperial Samui Chaweng

... It is a portrait of the whole family this time, done with oils. It will take them a few days to complete it. Some tailor visits too - I bought one silk short sleeve shirt and a 'Harley Davidson' top. Malani got some three quarter tailor made strides. Chilling out in Koh Samui is a fine way to end a busy trip abroad. Im glad I put Thailand last on the journey, this is the best way to relax and unwind. Your Samui Relaxer: Mace

... he didnt think to chuck that at me!<br><br>We then had a few more boozes in a REALLY busy bar which was heaving with some Westerners. Must be a good place we thought. For every Westerner there was 2/3 Thai girls (not waitresses if you know what I mean) and a lot of the customers were single, old Europeans. Did actually see one guy take his "waitress" outside for a while... Anyways, we had a few more and called it a night. Drinks that is. Few more drinks. To give you an ...

So, having said our goodbyes on Ko Tao, we took a short ferry ride over to Ko Phangan... the Thai island famous for its Full Moon, half moon, black moon etc. parties... Unfortunately we didn't time our trip right for any kind of party... However, we did take the chance to do our first Couch Surf. Couch Surfing is a website that was set up to enable people who are travelling to meet local people and stay with them to ...

... coming overland can only get a two week visa, and visa extensions can only be gotten now for 1 week at a cost which for us is about equivalent to room and board for the same time period! So it looks like we will have to do a complicated journey to the Burmese border, cross it for about an hour and then come back to Thailand for a new 14day free visa. A lot of trouble and pain, and we met very few tourists who are not angry about it.

... Instead I had to endure three days of this hell &amp; so I thought I'd just get a cheap room with a telly! The cheap room, 10 quid which isn't cheap in Asia, was horrendous &amp; was also right next to the boxing stadium which had an advert for tonights big fight on a thirty second loop from 10am til 11pm, so loud I couldn't even hear the telly! Eventually I checked into a nice hotel for a night- the final straw ...

... being bothered by the ladies because he was so handsome. This left very little time for reflection and praying so he became fat so the ladies would stop bothering him." My question to this would be; if he had all these ladies after him what was he praying for?? Anyway I'm gonna wrap this blog up now as the only other thing of note we did the following day was meet up with Ali, Jack, Jo and Jo at the port and hop on a ferry to Ko Samui, but more of that next time.

... was simply AMAZING! All wanted to again on a different part of the island, so thats a must. Me and Mike felt like Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry from James Bond - you work out who was who. There a loads of people selling all sorts of stuff on the beach, from necklaces, BBQd corn on the cob and ice creams to pasminas and prostitutes. Mike got talking to some of them and they were hilarious, most of all the all singing all dancing ice cream seller, "ice cream you scream...no ...

29/12/07 We got a taxi straight to Haadrin and tried to check in to the place where Saffrons friends Paddy and Mark were staying, with no success, so we settled for the Anan (or Anal as we affectionatley called it) for the night, which was right oin seafront but full of manc's, to sit and chill and shower before food. We went out that evening, where I had my first Gat Pow Moo, Kai Dow, minced porked and chilli n rice with fried egg on top. MMM MMMMMM Lusho ...

... wrong. Half way up the MOUNTAIN a guide met us and thank god he did other wise we'd all be dead now. It was like rock climbing. Carlene had a skirt on. We had to pull ourselves up with ropes. Ive never work so hard in my life. Took about an hour to reach the top. We were bloody knackered!!! At the top was a pool that you can swim in. Of course not researching the trip we werent prepared for that either. no towels and i ...