After doing the ring of south east Asia (Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia) we found ourselves back in Thailand where the times are good, the beaches are quality & the buckets are rocket fuel. Each day melted into the next with afternoons spent chilling in cafe's watching movies and nights spent strongly reinforcing the Thai drinks industry.
Here are a few of the highlights...
Koh Tao was really cool. We managed to brave the 6am starts and do a load of scuba diving & gain PADI certification...reckon a few dives along the Great Barrier Reef next month are definitely on the cards.
We found the most bizarre shop known to man, Mr. J's. Mr. J is most likely clinically insane. He has his bizarre philosophies on life printed out & laminated for all to see in his shop. Among his many pearls of wisdom is the view that if sportspeople don't give at least 70% of their earnings to charity or they'll be re-incarnated as kangaroos. This nutter also sells his own brand condoms (..essentially durex condoms with a Mr. J sticker placed on the outside) complete with 20 year guarantee & half-empty bottles of suntan lotion and moisturiser...in short he's got a bunch of screws loose.
Mr. J's take on the birds and the bees...
Can't find a fault with this at all...no way, is this guy a total nutjob
Koh Phangan was a heady mix of chilling on the beach, panning out in cafes watching movies and getting horribly drunk on buckets of sangsom whiskey. all the nights kinda blend into one, it's a very hard place to leave
Full Moon Party Mayhem...it's rare that such a massive night actually lives up to the hype but this one really did. It was a monstrous session which kicked off at 9pm and finished off at 6pm the next day when we finally called it a night...we were still broken men 5 days afterwards, anyone on for it next year?!?!
I managed to pick up some pretty nice injuries on the way home from a club in Thong Nai Pan, really wish they'd look into those pot-holes & maybe even invest in some street lights..it's not much to ask!
After a brief stay in the uber-tacky resort of Phuket we hopped across to Koh Phi Phi, the setting for much of the film "The Beach". Phi Phi is a cool, beautiful little group of islands where once again the buckets were out in force..we were raging we could only spend 2 days there but we had a connecting flight to Singapore to catch, would definitely like to hit this spot again.
Ray and myself successfully spitroast and unsuspecting statue of a lion..it didn't know what hit it..job done
...and one last thing. We came across this shop in Phuket, any thoughts on just what a BJ souvenir might be? Answers on a postcard..
