After my long trip I decided that it was about time to do some proper tourist stuff so I booked a us down to Ko Pha Ngan so i could go sit on a beach and not do anything for a while. The next day I was on a night bus heading south. Then on a ferry and after a total of 16 hours of travel I was finally there. I had got hold of Helene who was still there and she had booked me a Bungalow on the beach. It was a beautiful place called Mac's Bay Resort in Ban Tai (a...

Hello again, last time I left you I was getting into a van to head south. Now this was no ordinary van, no way. It was the most pimpin' van in the world, the only way it could have been more pimpin' was if we had some hoes. It was big with leather seats, the roof had a mix mr air-con vents and lights. So many lights in fact you could have held a dance party, literally, if there wasn't a vent it was a little light. There was also a very large sound sys...

Hello, I have now been in Thailand for a wee while. I had planned on not doing much for the first week but while I was in Melbourne I got an e-mail from the people I am staying with asking if I wanted to do some work with their volunteer group. It sounded like fun so i said yes, as you do. This was the beginning of the busy. The morning I was leaving Melbourne I got a text from Georgie, it was a rather polite text asking me if i had seen the news and if I th...

Hello, I have now been in Thailand for the last 7 days and it has been non-stop. I was bundled into a van and driven down to the south where I was put in a hut with 3 other people who didn't speak very much english and told i would be there for 2 days. It was a big learning curve because i was compleatly immersed in their way of life. this included flagging down a ute on the freeway so we could get to the place we wer going by standing on the back. It wa all ...

Hiall, i am alve and wellin Melbourne. It's been a bit manic since leaving, planes and security checks. Then Amy Sweetcakes picked me up form the airport and showed me round. We drank Magners and then met up with Mark and Zoey and Sambo and Belinda and Annamieka. The weather here is spectacular, not a cloud in the sky. Hope you are all well.Love Chris