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Well, don't i have a lot to update you all on! Since i've been here its been a whirlwind of travelling, meeting new people, staying in a new place every night and just generally the backpacking experience. We sayed in Bangkok for a few days then got the night bus down to Chumpon, which is where we got the boat over to Ko Tao, one of the few islands of paradise. The bus dumped us off somewhere at 3am in the morning, and we waited in this tiny boat shack where i slept on the concrete floor until about 5am when we got another bus to where the boat actually was which left at about 6:30am, then we had a 4 hour boat journey to the island, and we actually set foot on the island at 10am after leaving Bangkok at 6pm the day before, so all n all a long ass trip. Found out that Chloe aint good with her balance and her backpack as she keeps falling over everywhere, the best one was in the middle of the pier after getting off the boat... We then got ourselves this little bungalow in the middle of this foresty bit which was bascially mosquito heaven but only 100m away from the beach. The beach was gorgeous, white sands, turquoise waters, just amazing! Unfortunately the island is very couply so it was hard 2 make friends, but we did meet this guy called darrell and bascially we started on the drinking games and chloe got a bit worse for wear... very funny though. Wer are meeting up with him again on the western islands as we exchanged e-mail addys. We also rented out scooters to explore the island and after a monsoon down pour chloe set off on her scooter up this large hill, accelerated 2 much and skidded and went flying, i swear to god i have never laughed that hard in my life, these two thai women went rushing over to see if she was ok, but i cud see from her expression she was alright and just cudn't move cos i was laughing so much. I ended up pushing mine up the hill because i was not prepared for the same to happen to me.
The next day day after spending our night in the bungalow of hell, and i mean cockroaches, manky toilets, stained bed, mosquito heaven... we went a bit further down the beach where more of the action was to a nicer bungalo for a tiny bit more price, like a quid more expensive, which was nice and spent the next two days there. Whilst we were there we went on a boat trip to these japanese gardens, lovely little islands joined together by a white sand bar, took lots of picis! Then most of it was spent chilling, and i would just like to say my tan is coming along nicely, and when i put my photos onto cd i can upload them all and you can see. Then after those few nights on Ko Tao, we left on sunday to come to the next island, via boat (obviously) to Ko Phangan, as i was not all that familiar with the island we kind of asked a few backpackers where was good to go and we soon made our way to the busy stretch. We ended up at this hut resort called Leelas huts, and as it was so much more expsive on this island, mainly due to the full moon party which is coming up on wednesday, we had to get what we could. Whilst checking in we met a 27 yr old guy caleld gary who ended up coming into our room with us to share, he is a cool guy and very funny, he sleeps on this matresson the floor and me and chloe in the double bed. We nicked name the hut, the haunted hut as it was just gross, the mosquito net had like blood on it and wierd stains, and the toilet was falling apart and leaking and just gross, but to be honest we didnt spend all that much time there. That night (last night) we went out, me gary and clo and started on the famous 'buckets' which are a dangerous thing! Very drunky indeedy! We met so many people, met a guy from kent who was 6 ft 8, and he let me get on his shoulders and i took a picture of the crowded beach, to be honest its quite like ibiza sort of scene here... anyways, gary got hammered cos as he doesnt like to dance he spent most of the time with the buckets... I on the other hand played the bar games, like musical chairs and footy and if you won you got a drink, i was one of the last two people on musical chairs, it was just me and this girl and one chair, when the whistle went she literally pushed me with her FAT ass and i went flying, but i got a runners up drink so it took me out of the bad mood as i h8 to lose.... The footy i was just poo at, couldn't get it in the small holes for s***, wheras all the guys thought they were the next david beckham... Then at about 3am we had to make tracks as gary was too drunk to go on his own so we had to carry him home, and it was all just really funny, we get on really well as a 3.
Then this morning i woke with a stinking hangover as those buckets are leathal, but when i say hangover i just mean generally feeling like i was going to puke. We went to the local for brekkie then met this guy from St Albans called Sam, yes thats right...small world hey.... anyways cut a long story short he ended up having the idea of changing rooms as ours was s*** and we went for this luxurious room of 900bhart which is a bout 12quid a night, and basically, its a room with a beautiful view and just a double bed between the 4 of us...but we are hardly there anyways, and when we are we are usually a bit typsy. We are looking out for eachother laods though so no one get worried. Anyways, we are all off out tonight again, in our strappy t shirts and shorts....muahahahaha..... on the beach..... i have cut this journal down by quite a lot but they are the main bits, we are having a wicked time, being our michevious selves... oh and there is a bar here that sell magic mushroom shakes, we met a guy on them last night who was well tripped out, me clo and gary went to do it today but when we got there we weren't really in the mood, but we def will before we leave, one of those, gots to be done.... I'll let you know how that one goes.
We are also getting ourselves warmed up for the full moon part, which is why so many people have come to the island. Should be mental, especially as its the Thai kings birthday who they worship so its going to be extra big. Me and Chloe are also taking picis of people who look like Borat, found one israli but he is a bit too dark, HIGH FIVE. Anyways must be off as this is costing me and we are poor and on tight budget! Thinking of you all lots and hope everyone is AOK, post me messages to let me know what you are up to :)
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