We are now in Penang aka Georgetown-Malaysia which means I am now 8 hours ahead of you. Phil's proper leprosy ridden. I'm still waiting for my email from him the little swine. I was a bit sad to leave Ko Phangan coz we got really settled in, knew all the hotel staff, knew where everthing was and had a little international posse of mates. twas also such a lazy lifestyle. im REALLY excited for Australia now though and i think we're going to meet up with the lads ...

so we played cards with the israelis which ended up beaing a proper drag because some girl joined in who was impossible to get on with. so we went to bed. we had an unexpected extra day on the beach because the island tour company turned up at our hotel, stood outside the door but didnt knock!!! what?! so luckily we were able to rearrange the tour for the day after. so on our lazy day we ended up getting a little bit burnt and sitting in a cafe for hours. while...

19/2/09 we went to the grand palace on sunday. which was alright. expensive. and i had to wear a super sexy skirt thing coz my shorts wernt respectful enough. was interesting but it was the hottest its been since we got here so we couldnt really be arsed and came back. tuesday we went on a planned excursion. started at a sugar "factory " which was just a shed outside with a stove. we got some freebes of fudge like stuff though so we were happy. then ...

no worries. i havent been near a computer coz ive been to officially the worse place in the world. more on that later. its still 33 degrees here. but we're getting used to it. its a bit weird when the sunsets though coz its all red and you can look directly at the sun no problem. and its sets really quickly. from the day we arrived until the eleventh we only spent about 35 quid! spent a bit more now coz we went on our s***ty beach trip. so, the awful beach tri...

we havent done much the last few days. just hung about. done a few errands. went to the post office coz jess wanted to send some stuff. BUT we went to a massage parlour yesterday which was disasterous. it cost about three quid. they sent us behind a curtain and gave us a pair of baggy shorts to get changed into which alarmed us as there was no top:S jess asked if we leave our top on and she said no. so off went the tops. so we emerged in bras and some fetching s...