Patong City Hotel

... br><br> <br> <br><br>We went down a little &amp; then jumped overboard to do some snorkeling. Water temp again divine &amp; saw hundreds of small bright green fish with a black strip. You actually jumped into the water that was full of them. Saw big clams, coral, another beautiful big purple fish with bright orange lips &amp; a green stripe. When I had enough of snorkeling I floated around in my life jacket<br><br ...

Bridget writes We have just watched a home made movie of our month in Thailand and it only lasted 58 minutes!!! If only it could capture everything, especially taste - as of the wonderful red and yellow curries, and smell - including the garlands that we bought whilst waiting at the traffic lights, to hang up in the car for good luck! We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Phuket with Annie and Liam, enjoying the luxuries of ...

... now - we have such a knack for living next to them! Could be worse with bigger machines but at times it is bad enough. It is fascinating sitting on Bangla or Soi Sansabai and watching the white men walking along clutching the hand of their "beloved" Thai girl. We sat next to a girl in one bar who had been introduced by an Aussie banker as being her fiancé. When he went to play the hammer game she received a text from some other guy wanting to kiss her!

We arrived in Phuket to sunshine and humidity - awesome! It is great to be in Thailand. Phuket was just a stop fro a couple of days and for us to get our bearings after the insanity that was india. We hit a couple of beaches (like proper tourists sporting no tans what so ever ...

... not crossing windy straights. I can't even begin to explain how beautiful the karst formations are. Giant limestone cliffs towered 200m above the sparkling turquoise water and the jungles were straight out of Jurassic Park...complete with metre long lizards!! Cacti grew out of the rock and drooped toward the ocean. We took a million pictures but I don't think they really did the scenery justice. Each time we ...

... Hall at Jungceylon (the shopping cnetre food courts in Asia are fantastic) and then watch the 7pm laser /water fountain show. It's a bit of a hike to Jungceylon for the kids, up and down broken footpaths, open sewers, past beggars and hawkers etc. Lots of strange sights and smells for their eyes. I do have to admit though, I don't remember Patong as being so revoltingly dirty and untidy. And I read that the tsunami gave the place a chance to "clean ...

Today we caught the ferry from Ko Phi Phi to Phuket. We found a lovely and very clean guesthouse 'Golden Beach House' on the main street. We arranged to meet up with our uni friend Jo and her sister for dinner and cocktails tonight, it was so lovely to see them...and i pushed the boat out had lobster for dinner (christina)! Was so lovely to see them both. There's been mega heavy downpours today, monsoon season has come early, but hopefully a nice ...

... representing a different color robe of the monk, or so we were told). We wandered through a temple that night to see what was going on and at the time, no one had started to do the walk...everyone was just gathering. We didn't really know what was going on and it would have been nice to have spoken the language to better understand it all. Definitely the most interesting experience we had in Phuket was our "tour" of the city in a taxi driven by a man who called himself ...

... go diving, it is a little to cold here right now :( Oh well...After the liveaboard we went back to our place in Kata and didn't really do alot. I only had two days until I went home. We rented a bike for a day and went riding around, did some last minute shopping, and just generally hung out until it was time for me to leave (and maybe had a few beers too). And then it was time to go, so sad...

... likes to play games with you to keep you drinking and one of their favorites is Connect 4 (you will never beat them!!!!). after loosing 5 games in a row I decided to get on the bar with my broken foot and dance, purely to show the working girls how to do it properly( they were pretty bad dancers, have they never watched fame or footloose!!! After a few of my magic rhythmic hip gyration a few of the workings girls looked unimpressed, loser's!!! One minute ...