R.T. Hotel Phangnga

... an extra day as it is so nice, I changed my bus ticket to Bangkok. If you come to Thailand tear yourself away from the beaches and islands and come here, you won't regret it. A bit about Songkran. This is a water festival as well as the new year. For a few days people throw water at each other. I saw several utes being driven around with drums of water in the back and ...

... quite stupid and it would have been better to have not been as stubborn! Anyway, got back in time to have breakfast and a bikini wax (one word there - thorough!) ?& then off to the beach. I'm amazed to say that I have a bit of a tan - unheard of! The shallow, turqouise sea goes out for absolutely miles before you're out of your depth which means I could play in the water for ages without Every month there is a massive Full Moon Party on Ko Pha Nang ...

... While we were looking around at the visitors' centre a guy approached us and offered us a tour with his longtail boat. We agreed on 2000 bahts for the whole next day. Probably, it would have cost less and we should have bargained more, but in the end the price was OK for the 5 of us and we saved some time to search for tours and boats. We checked in the hotel, which was actually quite decent, considering the price of 15 usd per ...

... i looked around in disbelief, this was def too good to be true....my sense of paranoia soon set in and i came to the conclusion that this was all a set up...i used my better judgement and in an effort not to obtain any bad karma i closed the cooler and retreated to my fort...i woke up around sun up, found my way back to the bungalow and told my ice cream story....no one could believe that i excercised such self restraint...haha ...

... r jag. Inte jag hell**! säg** min fru. Gud vet vilken lurvig en som kan ha legat där. Vi spelar Yatzy tills solen går upp. Fall** i sömn sittande i varandras armar. Vi svep** förbi landskap. B**g, gummiträd, majsfält och byar och oxar. Men vi s** det inte. Klockan är tio på morgonen. Allting står stilla. Luften, bilarna och människorna. Det är här vi skall byta till ett annat tåg vilket skall ta oss till Hat Iai . Ungefär en timme lite drygt skall denna resa ta. Vi är redan 2 ...

... Rob DOESN'T think the Thais all look alike?) even though we use the same car from the same place. We jump in the car and start chatting to him about how much fun we had at the Bang Niang markets last night, only to be responded with an alarmed look and "Bang Niang?". Definitley NOT the same driver! "No, no - it's OK - take us to Merlin!"...everyone is relaxed again. We do another sneaky and head straight to the ...

... up on Thai women less than half their age. It was pretty gross, but that's Phuket for you. The first few days we were there, it was raining quite a bit, due to the nearby cyclone that had hit Burma. Fortunately, the weather improved near the end of the week and we got to enjoy the beach and water. We took a boat trip with our friends, Diane and Rob, to some of the nearby islands. We saw James Bond Island, which got its name from the James ...

... in fact very young, man and his friend on a motorbike stopped and asked if I wanted a lift. So it was that I arrived in Haad Rin in some style, sweating heavily on a bike with two kids - I'll probably end up on a sex tourist poster. I didn't not even want to contemplate how on earth was going to get back to my bungalow... Haad Rin has the typical tourist offerings - streets and streets of neon glow advertising restaurants, bars ...

... turtles. I enjoyed myself and spent a lot of time face down so my butt is burnt! The sun laughs at 45 sunblock here, I have already used an entire bottle but must admit my tan is developing nicely.  I will relax on the beach for a while today and then I have a 3 hour Thai massage booked. Tonight I will   with a lobster dinner at the restaurant ...

... to push stuff on you. Around 5 PM or so I hopped on the local transportation truck again back to Phuket town. I wanted to go somewhere nice to have dinner and the girl at the reception desk told me about this nice restaurant nearby that had some fabulous Thai food. I asked around to see if anyone wanted to join me...but they were all too busy drinking on the varanda. So, I walked around a bit and found this Italian place called Salvatore's. I ordered some ...