Thaila-beck: On making like horse crap Current mood: good Well Phuket was nice. Nice and wet!!! HA. But seriously it was quite wet most days which isn't very funny. Apart from one day I went around the island on a rented bike and saw some monkeys in a mangrove swamp which was cool and also some great views from viewpoints. I can imagine Phuket as a truly stunning, Paradisial (word needs to get that in its dictionary) haven but nothing looks its best when it's ove...

24 Apr 2008 Thaila-beck: On travelling to koh pang yah and the full moon partay Current mood: good First off, im so sorry about the title. So dreadfully sorry. i have an excuse. so here goes...Me and jack just got up real late and found a bar with the best pool table in thailand, had a couple of drinks, and now I've got that feeling on the edge of drunkeness when it feels like somebodys thrown a warm blanket over my brain and it wants to sleep. Wor...

Thaila-beck: On breaking habits and getting involved… Current mood: good ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Well obviously I haven't broken the habit of writing very long blogs but I will Endeavour to… So the day after I last blogged we left phetchaburi I believe by train to go north to hit kanchaburi. A bit of history: kanchaburi is the place where the death railway was built and in part s...

Thaila-beck: on Songkram Current mood: good Hey its the 15th!!!! only 5 days between my last post. how good am i!?!? Well i shall now as promised tell you a bit about songkram. its pretty mental really. so the gist of songkram is that its tied in with the new year. traditionally its the time to do a big "spring clean" and a time where kids go to their grandparents or elders to ask for blessing and have holy water sprinkled on their hands. ...

Thaila-Beck: On Culture Current mood: good Well, well, I need to break this habit of not checking in often as I feel this one may be another long one... Bangkok in a bit of hurry that place is very overwhelming. The traffic and heat and humidity and pollution are a bit mental so we decided to get on the road and head out of the city south to go first to phetchaburi then to a beach of some description to test the waters. Getting out of Bangkok was easy enough ...