V.L. Hatyai Hotel Songkhla

... easy to understand! So, that's it for Thailand. I've had an amazing three weeks, from the night markets in Chaing Mai, to my week spent on the idyllic desert island, or getting to see what life is really like for a Thai family! Hopefully Malaysia will be just as exciting and I'm sure it will have even more in store for me!

... he was!! I've never seen such passing in my life!!! If you have not experienced riding in a mini-bus in Asia next to the driver, you have missed out on one of the thrills of life!! We did have two breaks along the route for restroom and lunch. So, the time went by fairly quickly. We watched the rest of Juno on Laura's IPOD and I did lots of puzzles. Soon, we arrived in Hat-Yai (Judy's hometown), a quaint town just like we were told with lots of shopping ...

... was too freaked out to go on further. Everyone we talked with had been attacked by 38998234 leeches. Leeches are funny and gross but don't carry disease. Still, I wasn't too keen on having them sucking my blood. We made it out safely. After the jungle we thought it was finally time to head out to the islands so we made our way over to the town that has the boats but the weather was bad so we stayed for a few days and saw a cultural performance with drumming ...

... has it, the the cat became Koh Meaw (Cat Island..the Big one) the Mouse became Koh noo (mouse Island the smaller one) the Dog became Kao Tangkuan (the Monkey hill!) and the crystal became the sandy beaches along the beach know as Haastsaikaew. Having a wonderful time....wish you were here! -Shane aka...Braverhund-

... blushed (she does that alot...) so I leaned over and kissed her (a 'halik' in Tagalog) much to the delight of the young school girls giggles! As we left them I taught them (actually they just parrot the words much like you or I would do...) Goodbye! Have a ...

... mental ward. The bathroom was unusable, with a squat toilet (the norm often, actually), molded grout in the tile, a bathroom door that wouldn't shut or lock, a puny luggage padlock to secure the main door, and a string of ants carrying something dead up the wall. The final straw was when I sat on the bed and it didn't give at all. It was like a 2 inch mattress made of kapok on top of a solid wood platform and was hard as a rock. No way ...

... give you a case of Viagra?" As Mr. X and the American buyer begin to negotiate, The Chinese dealerf shows me to a seat at his table and gives me a lamp and a magnifying glass. Immediately, I am surrounded by gem-runners, who slide plastic bags of gemstones in front of me. I have no idea what to look for in these stones, so I just grab a pair of forceps and feign expertise. This is the kind of in-your-face experience I'm looking for I thought..... as it hit me that I ...

In the end we decided to brave it and got the train to Hat Yai,reassured by the fact that our two kiwi bus friends Veronica and Jannicka would be on the train too...safety in numbers.... We had such an awesome train ride.....even though it lasted 20 hours, than 15!!! Grrrrr! We had a sleeper cabin ala 'Some like it Hot'...where not only were we reunited with our lovely ladies but we also met some great guys..... an english guy rob who had been travelling for the past ...

... min pande i asfalten og saa trillede jeg ellers om paa ryggen... SMUKT! Jeg blev jo liiidt overrasket over pludselig at skulle lave saadan et stunt men det tog mig ikke lang tid at konstatere at intet var sket og saa var vi mere eller mindre faerdige af grin mens jeg laa der og saa smart ud :D Nu har jeg saa et halvblaat knae og mit hoved er lidt oemt... aaaak ak! Man kan i det mindste ikke se noget i mit fjaes lissom da jeg fik en bold i hovedet paa Koh Phangan ...

... finest moment, but of all the things in English I had access to, the Men Without Hats wasn't what I was expecting. What about Wang Chung or Haircut 100???? That was probably my bad taste music highlight so far, along with the opening song from the band at the Hat Yai Regency restaurant (you've just got to open with a Hammond organ version of "Misty" don't you), and the video on the TV screen in the minibus which featured a Thai bloke singing The Carpenters "Resterday Runce Mooooore".