Baan Tropicana Ko Samui

... again and she did buy me a couple of films although I prefer watching golf or football (Celtic-Motherwell I had to watch though, Somerset Park here I come).

I'll sign off for now and hope all is well back home, I miss you all lots and can't wait to rediscover all your glaiket faces. I'll leave you with a final picture of my beach with Big Buddha in the background (biggest in Thailand or in the world or something...)

... to shop our way home at the local night market. The rain only worsened and we wildly misjudged the distance to our hotel. I think our stubbornness got the best of us and by the time we got to our hotel, we were drenched. The bright spot to the journey was the most loyal stray dog you will ever meet. Sparky followed us from Betelnut to the Kandaburi and never left our side despite what delicacy left on a street corner he passed. In fact, he ...

... Later we found a bar whos happy hour ran until 1a so we crashed in there for a few drink offers and staggered our way back to the beach huts for a peice of Taz's birthday cake!

Sunday (Full moon party)
We were up bright and early for some breakfast before jumping in a minibus to the port. At 1am we set sail on a ferry rammed with holidayers all raring to get started at the full moon party. On arrival we realised its cost 1200 ...

... CELTA didn’t offer training that would apply to a diversity of student age groups and educational levels. Therefore, I was reluctant to invest my money in their course. I continued looking.


I explored the PELT certificate next. This program combines one week worth of intensive classroom training with a 4-8 week internship. The idea is to train teachers by allowing them maximum face time with students. The agency even offered to hook me up with a rural school ...

... and an open back with a bench to sit on and a metal bar to hold on to. Travelling at 60 mph over windy steep roads while drunk was pretty scary. Once we arrived at the pool party we put our things by the pool and soaked up the atmosphere. The party was the best one i've ever been to. There was a dance floor by the bar and everyone was wearing swimwear. The pool had a few people in it messing around and shoulder wrestling. They sell drinks in small buckets in Ko Phangan, where ...

... woman demands 800 baht for the ride to Thansadet - which we don't have - so she demands 200 baht and says we can give the rest to the driver. I have good reason to suspect this woman is a fraud as it later turns out the driver was waiting to give us our free ride to our resort. Hahaaa! Our poverty has outsmarted the crooks...a bit. At least she got some moolah. At this stage we tend to look upon being robbed as a kindly way to help the locals, who are making us seriously ...

... scooter. I was almost too tired to hang on as we drove quickly to the nearest rest stop and downed a bottle of water each. Anyway, we're alive! But I'm going to blame this whole thing on the dumb dog that barked at us on our way to Bottle Beach. If he hadn't of been there this whole thing wouldn't have happened. Jerkface dog. Uh, quickly now, other things in the last little while.... We fed an elephant bananas and he snotted on Oli while he was taking a picture of me ...

... far from Lamui beach which from everyone we have spoken to on Phangan, is a better beach tha n Chaewang which is the islands biggest and most popular area. We spent three nights staying here.Our trip to Lamui beach was a bit disappointing however. We expected to see this beautiful beach paradise when in reality its dirty and theres rubbish along the shore. Fat hairy backed western men get thai massages along the resorts packed in side by side and ...

... in our hotel who gives us Eggs over easy, hot choc (2sugars!) and just for us pineapple as papaya is siiick!! its allll freeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! and it gets delievered to and from room A1 DAILY!!! what a daaaal!!! checking out of Ko Samui today and off in search of sunshone cos quite frankly we are sick of looking out at GREY WATERS!!!! ha! Happy New Year everyone!xxx

I thought the title might get your attention!! We arrived by boat to Ko Samui in the afternoon and it was absolutely beautiful. Blue waters, green hills, and white sand....I couldīt wait to just lay on the beach with a piņa colada and do nothing for a change! Checked in to the hotel than walked down to the beach and waded into the water - which was very warm. Itīs especially nice to feel hot sand under my toes after trekking in the jungle, taking ...