MASAGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE
Trip Start
Jun 15, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 15, 2009
Singapore,
Singapore
Friday, July 18, 2008
Every where you in Ko Samui, and in fact in every town in Thailand, you will find Thai girls sitting at a corner asking you if you want a massage. It goes something like this .... "Massaaaaaaaaaad?". Now what you have to remember is there will be five or six of these girls so it sounds like a pack of dogs howling at the moon, "MASSAAAAAAAAAAD?". On top of this there are street vendors everywhere trying to sell you suits, shirts, bags "Excuse me Boss, come inside, have a look", "Something for the lady".
So a typical walk down a Thai street consists of "MASSAAAAAD?","NO thank you" "Boss come have a look inside","No Thank you", "MASSAAAAAAD""No thank you" "You like a suit, 40 euros for a suit" "No thank you", "MASSAAAAAAD?" "No thank you". You get the picture. It can get annoying if you let6 it get to you, but myself and Caroline just laugh it off.
Off course when you are in Asia you have to get a massage or two, they are just so cheap.
Ko Samui Airport
I had my reservations at first(I wasn't quite sure if I would be getting a massage or something else) but I eventually had my first massage in Asia in Vang Vieng in Laos. Back in Ko Samui, myself and Caroline had decided our R&R definitely involved a massage.The main beach in Ko Samui, Chaweng beach, is lined with food stalls and massage tables so we decided we would get one near our usual spot on the beach. So up we get on the table and we focus on relaxing. The problem with massages is that every muscle in your body starts to relax bar one, your brain.
There I am lying on the massage table with my shorts on, face down. The woman giving me the massage starts to push the leg of my shorts up to my mid rift, coming very close to the family jewels. I'm thinking "Oi Oi, we're in public woman and Caroline is lying right beside so i dont think thats appropriate". You see thats it, whats appropriate to a masseuses is sometimes borderline for her customer. So I am enjoying the massage but all the time my brain is working overtime thinking" Ow thats a little sore" "careful there love, watch what your massaging" and then before I know it she has crossed the line and is massaging my bum."Holy shit" I'm thinking, "I know we were getting an all over body massage, but I didn't think it would be ALL over". "Should I stop, do i say something" but it was actually quite nice and it wasn't like she focused on the bum, just brushed over it really(Shorts still on if your wondering)
Forty five minutes later and we are done, relaxed but my brain frazzled myself and Caroline return to our deck chairs. "Did you find it a bit weird when she went over your bum?" asks Caroline. I let out a sigh of relief and say yes"Thank god it wasn't just my masseuses taking advantage of this fine tushy" I think
Our second trip to Ko Samui was all that we hoped for, we got a little sun burnt again(when will we ever learn), we went to a brilliant cabaret show called "Christys". It was all lady boys taking part, but you would never know the difference. You come out of there with lots of questions running round your head as well "Where are their bits? That cant possibly be a man" but they all are. The cabaret was a real laugh and the lady boys took pleasure in teasing me(To Caroline's delight) by sitting on my lap and asking me to put money down their tops but we both really enjoyed that night and every night in Ko Samui.
We flew from Ko Samui to Singapore where we have three days before we head on to Australia and Chapter two of our trip round the world
