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Dear Blogspotters,
Before I hand over to Cooper (as promised) for what I imagine will be a concise and intriguing blog with very few mentions of food, regarding our time in Koh Samui, I feel moved to mention our affection for the ever popular message board.
Firstly, perhaps yes, Morten and Guy, while always a pleasure to hear from you both, there are indeed alternate methods of communication and while Guy's telephone is out of order I'm sure there must be more convenient means than our message board?? That said...we really do enjoy it, so perhaps don't find another way...
Secondly, and quite importantly, Carrie...yes, we are brown thank you for noticing, we're quite pleased with how our tans are coming along and hope to enhance them further. The boat was nice, I'm sure you'd have enjoyed it too. The monkey pots are made from conoconuts and were the three wise monkeys 'hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil'. Finally, The Skipper and Gloria are having a splendid holiday before being returned to their rightful owners, our respective Nephew and Niece who will receive not only a well travelled soft toy, but an album full of stories of said travels. They do however send their regards.
Thirdly, Nicola, I'm sorry, I think we ate all the cake...in fact no, neither Katie or I are sorry, the cake tasted goooood and we're glad to have eaten the lot!
Fourthly, nice spot on Morten's new sign-off Col!! It's been years, glad you've finally had the courage to stand proud as what and who you are Mort/Tara.
And finally, we like the sound of that RV...
Over to Cooper.
Thanks for that Nick...well folks it's good to see you all here tonight, thanks for stopping by...
Nick forgot to mention that we love getting messages from everyone...and we always check the message board eagerly when we come online! Sad I know, but it has been a couple of months now and I suppose we must be missing some of you a tad...also Mummy and Daddy I'm glad the scrap book is coming on well!!
So we are now in Ko Samui...however you needn't all be too jealous as since we have been here there has been an awful lot of rain!! And huge storms, in fact today the power has been knocked off twice!! Rubbish!! So we haven't been able to lay on the beach or anything yet, but have still managed to mooch around a bit in Lamai, the resort we are staying in.
We got the overnight train from Bangkok which was ok apart from the fact that it wasn't actually a sleeper train, we just had reclining seats...so not the best nights sleep ever but never mind...Nick of course slept like a baby!! We landed up the next morning and were herded into a minibus by a man shouting 'Ko Samui! Ko Samui!', before being driven off with a load of other bewildered looking tourists and then an hour or so later arriving at the ferry terminal. Another couple of hours and we were here! Well, almost, just another minibus ride to go...simple as that you see this travelling malarkey!!
Despite the bad weather it is still a nice place here, although we are looking forward to moving on to our next stop of Ko Tao next week for some scuba diving! Hopefully will have some sunshine here first though...fingers crossed.
On a more negative note...it seems I am falling apart piece by piece...my current problems include being eaten alive by mozzies, a very painful ulcer and elephantitis. Yes, that's right, I have the dreaded elephantitis...some of you may recall this is an affliction that has blighted holidays for me in the past...and it seems to have got me once again!! On the night we left Bangkok I noticed a small bite on the back of my ankle, which by the next morning had swelled up quite a lot and was quite uncomfortable. By yesterday...my whole foot and ankle were grossly swollen (like a big fat person foot/cankle - on top of the cankle I already have!!) and a lovely shade of red/purple...and the skin was so tight and itchy I wanted to rip my foot off!! Yuk!! My good escort Nicholas helped me to hobble off towards the pharmacy where I was given some anti-inflammatory and anti-histamine tablets which I am now munching away on at every meal!! They seem to be working though as today it is roughly only half as big again as my good foot rather than twice the size!!
Mozzies love me...no matter how much repellent I splather on...I think some alternate form of repellent is needed...if you have any old wives tale type suggestions please...don't be shy, you know where the message board is!! (Mum - please don't worry, as much as I am falling apart I am pretty good at sticking myself back together!!)
Right, that's enough from us...not actually much to report on as we haven't done a great deal, but it is still exciting to be somewhere new! I can hardly believe it is April now...so crazy...but we have done so much already! And still have so far to go!!
Hope all is well in good old England...and anywhere else you might be reading this from...
Big love people!!!! xxxx
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