Smile House Rawai

1/03/10

Got the mini bus to Phuket which took about 5 hours all together. We could have got a ferry and it would have only taken 2 hours, but frankie is fed up of getting sick on them!

Arrived in a really touristy area (Costa Del Sol style), so we wanted to head out to find somewhere less touristy. Andy wanted to go back to the...

Got to Thailand at last on the 12th of Jan 2010 staying until the 4th of April

12/1/2010 Day 1
Pretty much sat on a plane for most of this day

13/1/2010
interesting traveling half way round the world sleeping most of the way and walking off of the plane in the middle of the day when it should be night

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This is the surf capital of SE Asia, I wanted to have a go here really really badly, but I have a really bad case of 'man flu' caught from air conditioning in Phi Phi (Victoria likes to call it the sniffles, but you guys know that we get a much much worse strain of flu to women!!).

Also the red flags and 6 or 7 foot waves might have bee...

I reckon this is probably the longest I've EVER left you without an update and as I've recently climbed onto a more positive track I thought it best to throw one up now while the going's good, or at least better. Since getting my teaching qualification in January things have been touch and go health wise. For those who are just tuning in I've ha...

Leaving Siem Reap behind in the early morning light, we boarded our bus bound for the border with Thailand, from where we would catch a connecting bus to Bangkok. At a price of only $15 for 13 hours travel we should have known not to expect a state of the art bus, but we didn't expect the bus to be so jam-packed that everyone would have to sit w...

Dear P, Let me make something very clear. I'm not one of those people who gets down about life and gets all whiny and victim-y and talks about suicide. I actually have no time for those people. Rest assured. Now if I've mentioned suicide before it has been a light-hearted comment to reflect a better option than to go through all of this excrucia...

We arrived in Phuket town on the very hot and sunny afternoon of January 15/09. Since we had visited Phuket in 2005 we were familiar with the town layout and so we walked past the team of tuktuk drivers and onward for 10 muntes to the On On hotel. We were happy that they had rooms available as it has some of the cheapest beds in town. We paid 25...

First thing in the morning we headed to Phuket. It was a 2 hour boat journey and the smaller islands in between were cool to look at. Jamie and Ryan were there already, arriving from Koh Lac the day previous. They text us to tell us some shocking news that we were not ready for. Ok, to set this up correctly I have to tell you that we were ready ...

It's been a slow week here with the exception of last Monday which I will not talk about. All I will say is: 'one of the worse 3 hours of my life' and wasn't training-wise either. So this week it's been pure Muay Thai training. My right-shin reached the point where it was bruised and tender. I took Saturday training off to have 2 days to heal. H...

Shane says: Today I almost died. On my birthday. No kidding. Drowned on a boat out at sea. Almost. We took a trip today to go to the famous Maya Bay on Phi Phi Lei - the smaller sister island to the one we are staying on, Ph Phi Lei is uninhabited and Maya bay is where they filmed the movie the beach. We left on the boat at 2:30pm, and the boat ...