25/02/2005 Steve catching criminals, although I think he looks rather YMCA
Monday, February 28, 2005
The next day.....(Steve)
25/2/2005-What do you expect, nothing happened today. Well exept for the fact when Sian went to bed after we watched Pirates of the Caribean, Carly, Trenna, Mick, Rory and me decided that another trip to the pirates bar was in order. We never learn do we!! By 1.30am we were back on the buckets and singing all manor of songs, having two hours of sleep this morning I'm amazed an of us managed to walk never mind this!
The girls were leaving at 6.30 (by boat!!! Good luck girls) so they stayed up singing till departure time, I had given up at 5am, and retired feeling Sang-Som'd to the extreme.
26/2/2005- Tom and Jess had left yesterday,Trenna and Carly left at 6.30am and the Irish lads had gone too at 10am. How much of a post party downer did we have?!?! Sian cried a bit, being really tough and manly of course I did not, we waited for our taxi to take us to the ferry. After last nights swansong at the pirates bar I didn't know what planet I was on, so when we left the very lonely feeling hut sun, I needed to sleep rather a lot. Luckily the ferry crossing to Surat Thani was smooth and I slept all the way. While waiting for the coach to Bangkok I was still feeling a bit odd, managed to sleep till midnight when we had our 14 minute (why not 15?) break. Felt so awake that when offered some valium to help me sleep I accepted, the next thing I remember is waking up in Bangkok feeling very confused having been knocked out by the Valium, and once in our hotel I realised that my mobile was no longer present when I called the register, it had fallen out of the bag on the bus after we got a text and we were so gone that we didnt notice!! Bollocks!!
Moral of the story, dont drink buckets of Sang-Som, dont take Valium on the bus and avoid pretty women in Thailand-they are really men.
Off to Cambodia tomorrow for something completely different, as monty python would say....
The girls were leaving at 6.30 (by boat!!! Good luck girls) so they stayed up singing till departure time, I had given up at 5am, and retired feeling Sang-Som'd to the extreme.
26/2/2005- Tom and Jess had left yesterday,Trenna and Carly left at 6.30am and the Irish lads had gone too at 10am. How much of a post party downer did we have?!?! Sian cried a bit, being really tough and manly of course I did not, we waited for our taxi to take us to the ferry. After last nights swansong at the pirates bar I didn't know what planet I was on, so when we left the very lonely feeling hut sun, I needed to sleep rather a lot. Luckily the ferry crossing to Surat Thani was smooth and I slept all the way. While waiting for the coach to Bangkok I was still feeling a bit odd, managed to sleep till midnight when we had our 14 minute (why not 15?) break. Felt so awake that when offered some valium to help me sleep I accepted, the next thing I remember is waking up in Bangkok feeling very confused having been knocked out by the Valium, and once in our hotel I realised that my mobile was no longer present when I called the register, it had fallen out of the bag on the bus after we got a text and we were so gone that we didnt notice!! Bollocks!!
Moral of the story, dont drink buckets of Sang-Som, dont take Valium on the bus and avoid pretty women in Thailand-they are really men.
Off to Cambodia tomorrow for something completely different, as monty python would say....
Ful Mooning Party (Steve)
24th February 2005-Ko Pha-Ngan Island.
So, the biggest free beach party in the world, we've gone out and bought some UV fluorescent paint and cut up a pink Lilo to make some interesting outfits, as you do.
Its gonna be a big night so we start drinking early, as you do. Having made ourselves look a little silly, but very cool of course using the afore-mentioned UV paint, we get into our taxi and head to Had Rinn, the scene of the crime. Sian, Tom, Jess and myself have gone ahead of Carly, Trenna and the Irish lads, having arranged to meet up, very cleverly at no specific time. As soon as we got there we realised that meeting people here was a near on impossible task, picking out friends in the UV lights and darkness was very much like looking for George Bush's conscience, so we decided to party with just the 4 of us and if we found t' others then cool.
Dancing away the time starts to pass quickly, aided very nicely by beer and Vodka buckets (the bucket drinking two nights ago led us to believe the sang-som is evil). Amazingly we are pretty sober still at about 2am, we decide to have a quick sit down when one of the Irish lads (Rory) stubles round the corner and collapses next to us. Clearly an indication of how messy things were already we sat with him for a while while we carried on drinking Singha beer. A quick walk round the beach revealed the extent of 'bucket damage', people shagging in the sea and on the beach, sometimes with a small crowd around them, as well as men and women pissing in the sea (its was very warm) as well as the expected vomitting, again into the sea. Painting a nice picture here eh? Thats not to mention the fact that we found 3 hotel rooms keys, several wallets, even a scooter, althought that turned out to belong to a cameraman making a documentery on the party.
The clubs though were really good, all full of UV lights making our outfits glows loads, as well as some funky house music, all was good and fun! As it neared sun rise we headed to the mellow bar on the rocks to the left of the beach, it was only now that we started to feel pissed and amazingly we had been there for about 9 hours!!! As we walked back finding the new day's light amusing we find Carly and Trenna, who had lost their camera and were a little dispondant with each other, alcohol is a funny thing, I'm sure that if it were invented now it would never be made legal.......
The number of accidents is usually a few drownings, and maybe a boat accident or 2, not aware of any this month but having seen a long boat nearly run over a 'frisky' couple we could see how its so dangerous.
7.30 am-As we were covered in sand the only sensible thing to do was jump in the toilet, er I mean sea, fully clothed with Sian and Trenna. Should have remembered to remove my watch though, which died at 7.35am. The 45 minute taxi ride back was spent with a beer (again) and having a water fight, the driver, not being amused, drove at mach 2 to Hut Sun to get us back for making a mess.
As partys go, it was crazy, if you're ever in the area at full moon time, check it ooouttt!!
So, the biggest free beach party in the world, we've gone out and bought some UV fluorescent paint and cut up a pink Lilo to make some interesting outfits, as you do.
Its gonna be a big night so we start drinking early, as you do. Having made ourselves look a little silly, but very cool of course using the afore-mentioned UV paint, we get into our taxi and head to Had Rinn, the scene of the crime. Sian, Tom, Jess and myself have gone ahead of Carly, Trenna and the Irish lads, having arranged to meet up, very cleverly at no specific time. As soon as we got there we realised that meeting people here was a near on impossible task, picking out friends in the UV lights and darkness was very much like looking for George Bush's conscience, so we decided to party with just the 4 of us and if we found t' others then cool.
Dancing away the time starts to pass quickly, aided very nicely by beer and Vodka buckets (the bucket drinking two nights ago led us to believe the sang-som is evil). Amazingly we are pretty sober still at about 2am, we decide to have a quick sit down when one of the Irish lads (Rory) stubles round the corner and collapses next to us. Clearly an indication of how messy things were already we sat with him for a while while we carried on drinking Singha beer. A quick walk round the beach revealed the extent of 'bucket damage', people shagging in the sea and on the beach, sometimes with a small crowd around them, as well as men and women pissing in the sea (its was very warm) as well as the expected vomitting, again into the sea. Painting a nice picture here eh? Thats not to mention the fact that we found 3 hotel rooms keys, several wallets, even a scooter, althought that turned out to belong to a cameraman making a documentery on the party.
The clubs though were really good, all full of UV lights making our outfits glows loads, as well as some funky house music, all was good and fun! As it neared sun rise we headed to the mellow bar on the rocks to the left of the beach, it was only now that we started to feel pissed and amazingly we had been there for about 9 hours!!! As we walked back finding the new day's light amusing we find Carly and Trenna, who had lost their camera and were a little dispondant with each other, alcohol is a funny thing, I'm sure that if it were invented now it would never be made legal.......
The number of accidents is usually a few drownings, and maybe a boat accident or 2, not aware of any this month but having seen a long boat nearly run over a 'frisky' couple we could see how its so dangerous.
7.30 am-As we were covered in sand the only sensible thing to do was jump in the toilet, er I mean sea, fully clothed with Sian and Trenna. Should have remembered to remove my watch though, which died at 7.35am. The 45 minute taxi ride back was spent with a beer (again) and having a water fight, the driver, not being amused, drove at mach 2 to Hut Sun to get us back for making a mess.
As partys go, it was crazy, if you're ever in the area at full moon time, check it ooouttt!!
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Planes, ferrys,smokey pick ups,more planes. (Steve)
21/2/05- So after an early night we headed for the ferry pier back to the mainland, where absoulutely sod all interesting happened, except that the pick up we got to take us to Trat airport had a broken exahust, resulting in a lovely cocktail of diesel fumes and dust for our lungs to cope with.
Trat airport is possibly the cutest airport anywhere, it is in the middle of nowhere, the buildings are all open and if you were feelling so inclined, you could easily commit kamikaze by running in front of a plane, no ridiculus air con'd departure gates here.
After changing at Bangkok we landed for one night in Samuim having missed the last ferry to Koh Pha-Ngan. Ended up in a shutter of a hotel but you just gotta do these things sometimes.....
Sian and me decided to see some ladyboy caberet while in chaweang (the nasty, really resorty part of Samui) and after they pinched my arse we had to go take a look. Well, is it a woman, is a man? We're convinced some are actually proper girls, talk about well strapped mans bits, and there are definately boobs (being flashed!!) around too. It was more of a fashion show though as they didnt really sing, just mimed badly. As we leave, Sian has a request from one rather tall 'lady' to see some real breast, which was obliged. The request I think they asked of me was not though. Nor is it printable!!
22/2/05- Great, another rough ferry ride. At least we hadnt all drunk many buckets of Sang-Song so none of us had an urge to empty our tummys. Arriving in Pha-Ngan we get a little glimpse of how busy Had Rin is going to be for the full moon party, feckin' packed. We are returning to Huy Sun in the North though, well away from the crowds. We arrived to hear the familar 'eh up chuck' of Carly and Trenna, two crazy gals we meet in Mumbai a few moths back.
Its really good to see them again, and Sian and me quickly set about catching up with them over beer in the sea. Theres a load of Irish lads here too, so the decision is taken to drink more buckets at the pirates bar at the end of the beach.
Needless to say, the evening ended rather messily, and resulted in the cancellation of the planned shopping for full moon outfits today. We are going to try and get some UV paint for our bottoms, so there should be some interesting pictures soon........
Trat airport is possibly the cutest airport anywhere, it is in the middle of nowhere, the buildings are all open and if you were feelling so inclined, you could easily commit kamikaze by running in front of a plane, no ridiculus air con'd departure gates here.
After changing at Bangkok we landed for one night in Samuim having missed the last ferry to Koh Pha-Ngan. Ended up in a shutter of a hotel but you just gotta do these things sometimes.....
Sian and me decided to see some ladyboy caberet while in chaweang (the nasty, really resorty part of Samui) and after they pinched my arse we had to go take a look. Well, is it a woman, is a man? We're convinced some are actually proper girls, talk about well strapped mans bits, and there are definately boobs (being flashed!!) around too. It was more of a fashion show though as they didnt really sing, just mimed badly. As we leave, Sian has a request from one rather tall 'lady' to see some real breast, which was obliged. The request I think they asked of me was not though. Nor is it printable!!
22/2/05- Great, another rough ferry ride. At least we hadnt all drunk many buckets of Sang-Song so none of us had an urge to empty our tummys. Arriving in Pha-Ngan we get a little glimpse of how busy Had Rin is going to be for the full moon party, feckin' packed. We are returning to Huy Sun in the North though, well away from the crowds. We arrived to hear the familar 'eh up chuck' of Carly and Trenna, two crazy gals we meet in Mumbai a few moths back.
Its really good to see them again, and Sian and me quickly set about catching up with them over beer in the sea. Theres a load of Irish lads here too, so the decision is taken to drink more buckets at the pirates bar at the end of the beach.
Needless to say, the evening ended rather messily, and resulted in the cancellation of the planned shopping for full moon outfits today. We are going to try and get some UV paint for our bottoms, so there should be some interesting pictures soon........
Monday, February 21, 2005
Hangovers, Sea Sickness and snorkeling (sian)
What a gorgeous Island we are staying on! Yesterday we hired bikes and explored stuff! There is only one road around the Island and we spent all day on it stopping off at various points to marvel at the beauty and laugh at each others helmets! Mine and Jess' was pink, Steve had a purple helmet, whilst Tom's was silver. As I don't drive I hopped on the back of Steve's bike, and sung to him badly for most of the day.
We are having such a great time here, it is just a shame that the only accomodation Steve and I could find was a over priced shed with no bathroom. Should I be complaining that we are spending a fiver a night on it? It is something that has been bothering us both for the last couple of days. On the plus side we have a beach as a garden and the waves to send us to sleep. We can also run naked from our shed to the sea in about 10 seconds as we discovered the other night!
Last night we drank 4 buckets between 4 of us! They have a small bottle of rum in each. It was great fun. We built a fire on the beach and buried Tom in the sand, we swam in the sea, and got told off for being too loud at about 11.30pm! (people sleep early here) The fire drew in other crazy people who couldn't sleep, it was great fun! The highlight was the boys dragging there logs along the beach. Maybe I was biased but I'm sure Steve's was the biggest!
Getting up this morning was a struggle. We were all still drunk over breakfast and very nearly pulled out of our snorkeling trip. We were all thinking the same thing but no one was brave enough to say anything to each other! What didn't help was that in all the time we have been in Thailand today is the first day we saw rain, which meant that the sea was really choppy (great hangover cure...NOT!). The boat carrying about 30 people was smashing against the waves. A few people were screaming as they thought that the boat was about to sink... Still enough life jackets were on board. Our first stop was on a great reef with magical fish. Tom was a little too sick to join us, but soon recovered and we all had a great time around the 2 other reefs throughout the day. We spent an afternoon on a coral beach where I promptly fell into much needed sleep. The boat ride back to Ko Chang was far better than the crossing but I think that is partly due to our hangovers finishing.
The 4 of us get to ride in the back of a pickup and see some more of this gorgeous Island we are on.
Catching a couple of planes tomorrow so we can get to the full moon. We'll be staying sober tonight... almost.
We are having such a great time here, it is just a shame that the only accomodation Steve and I could find was a over priced shed with no bathroom. Should I be complaining that we are spending a fiver a night on it? It is something that has been bothering us both for the last couple of days. On the plus side we have a beach as a garden and the waves to send us to sleep. We can also run naked from our shed to the sea in about 10 seconds as we discovered the other night!
Last night we drank 4 buckets between 4 of us! They have a small bottle of rum in each. It was great fun. We built a fire on the beach and buried Tom in the sand, we swam in the sea, and got told off for being too loud at about 11.30pm! (people sleep early here) The fire drew in other crazy people who couldn't sleep, it was great fun! The highlight was the boys dragging there logs along the beach. Maybe I was biased but I'm sure Steve's was the biggest!
Getting up this morning was a struggle. We were all still drunk over breakfast and very nearly pulled out of our snorkeling trip. We were all thinking the same thing but no one was brave enough to say anything to each other! What didn't help was that in all the time we have been in Thailand today is the first day we saw rain, which meant that the sea was really choppy (great hangover cure...NOT!). The boat carrying about 30 people was smashing against the waves. A few people were screaming as they thought that the boat was about to sink... Still enough life jackets were on board. Our first stop was on a great reef with magical fish. Tom was a little too sick to join us, but soon recovered and we all had a great time around the 2 other reefs throughout the day. We spent an afternoon on a coral beach where I promptly fell into much needed sleep. The boat ride back to Ko Chang was far better than the crossing but I think that is partly due to our hangovers finishing.
The 4 of us get to ride in the back of a pickup and see some more of this gorgeous Island we are on.
Catching a couple of planes tomorrow so we can get to the full moon. We'll be staying sober tonight... almost.
Friday, February 18, 2005
White Sands, Warm sea (Sian)
We left Bangkok yesterday for the day long journey to Ko Chang. We arrived for a wonderful sunset which we saw whilst dashing along mountainous roads in the back of a Nissan Hilux! A hike along the beach later and we find ourselves in the north of White Sand beach, in a great resort with huts 10 meters from the sea. Ko chang is hilly with a rainforest interior it has only one road which circles the Island. It is quite breath taking in it's beauty.
We awoke this morning to the calming sound of the sea, the first thing we did was jump in to the warm water for a swim. I think we are going to really enjoy our time here!
We awoke this morning to the calming sound of the sea, the first thing we did was jump in to the warm water for a swim. I think we are going to really enjoy our time here!
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Valentines in Bangkok and Super Hero's (Sian)
We arrive in Bangkok, mid afternoon. Trying to get a taxi to put on the meter was interesting but eventually we do and head to Sukhimvit Road where we hope to find a lush hotel for valentines.
We spend an afternoon in aircon luxury order room servive, have a pillow fight, a bath and watch TV!
We head to the airport at 10.30 to meet Tom and Jess from the plane, and spend what's left of the evening with them drinking very very strong cocktails in the 24 hour bar in our hotel. Ater copious amounts of alcohol we decide now would be a good time to cut steve's hair! Not too bad an effort especially with Tom holding the table lamp, Jess with the clippers and me holding the plug socket as the clippers kept on fusing. We safely locked Steve's hair away in the safe and have now magically forgotten to give the hotel the access code!
We all awake early and have a swim before breakfast.
The day is spent negotiating the sky train and river bus to the palace. The palace was amazing, definately a highlight to our trip. It looks like it has been designed by a child who wants to cover the world with glitter! Everything sparkled, the emerald budda has his clothes changed every season and we had to wear daggy clothes as we were not aloud bare shoulders, ankles, or toes! It was funny but wonderful.
We also get to see the reclining budda who is HUGE, not sure if the photo's really give that impression but steve was about the size of his big toe!
Another swim early evening before hooking up with Julia and Rolf for an Indian dinner. We search for Karaoke hoping to relive our experience from a few nights ago, but to no avail. Instead we go to the Hard Rock Cafe and listen to a cute rock band playing covers from queen and such like.
The ride home was great, we raced tuk tuks, Steve and I thought we had won until we pull up the hotel to be greeted by Tom and Jess, who's drver knew a quicker route!
Had to check out of our hotel today so made the most of the swimming pool, buffet breakfast and bath. We are now heading to the backpacker district of Ko San Road
We spend an afternoon in aircon luxury order room servive, have a pillow fight, a bath and watch TV!
We head to the airport at 10.30 to meet Tom and Jess from the plane, and spend what's left of the evening with them drinking very very strong cocktails in the 24 hour bar in our hotel. Ater copious amounts of alcohol we decide now would be a good time to cut steve's hair! Not too bad an effort especially with Tom holding the table lamp, Jess with the clippers and me holding the plug socket as the clippers kept on fusing. We safely locked Steve's hair away in the safe and have now magically forgotten to give the hotel the access code!
We all awake early and have a swim before breakfast.
The day is spent negotiating the sky train and river bus to the palace. The palace was amazing, definately a highlight to our trip. It looks like it has been designed by a child who wants to cover the world with glitter! Everything sparkled, the emerald budda has his clothes changed every season and we had to wear daggy clothes as we were not aloud bare shoulders, ankles, or toes! It was funny but wonderful.
We also get to see the reclining budda who is HUGE, not sure if the photo's really give that impression but steve was about the size of his big toe!
Another swim early evening before hooking up with Julia and Rolf for an Indian dinner. We search for Karaoke hoping to relive our experience from a few nights ago, but to no avail. Instead we go to the Hard Rock Cafe and listen to a cute rock band playing covers from queen and such like.
The ride home was great, we raced tuk tuks, Steve and I thought we had won until we pull up the hotel to be greeted by Tom and Jess, who's drver knew a quicker route!
Had to check out of our hotel today so made the most of the swimming pool, buffet breakfast and bath. We are now heading to the backpacker district of Ko San Road
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