Today we both woke up with the mother of all hang overs, it pretty much felt like death...Laura kept saying "Steven, I actually think I'm going to die". I think the cheap local booze combined with reckless mixing pretty much sealed our fate! Even I felt bad, which normally suggests it had been heavy! We were meant to head to town today but in our state it would not be productive. I packed up Laura's bag for her has she was floating in and out of consciousness. I ...

We had a better night sleep last night except from the occasional dog barking but we couldn't really complain. Laura still had a slightly upset stomach which luckily for her, was quite mild. We quickly headed down to the beach and I had the usual breakfast of banana and bread, always satisfying. Today was going to be our last night at Footprints guesthouse and we still didn't have any onward travel booked at this point. Tonight the guesthouse was putting on an op...

I had been in a very deep sleep until around 5am, when we awoken by two girls coming in from a big night out. They were both obviously quite drunk and did not realise how thin the walls were separating our rooms. Basically, one had lost the other who was very drunk and one had ended up sleeping on the beach..... and so forth! It would have made quite entertaining listening if it hadn't been keeping us awake! Luckily after a while they just seemed to stop talking ...

We woke about eight thirty after a very restless night... We had gone to bed about eleven ish as we were pooped and must have fallen asleep quickly to be woken about one ish to a party downstairs. Our room is lovely but given its a wooden building there isn't a lot of protection from noise and as we are situated directly above the common area we soon realised that. The bar is open till twelve but obviously doesn't mean the party is to end. The chatting and mus...

We had a reasonable night sleep and decided to stay another night here. We extended our stay then we headed out to check out the local area. The first impressions were not great and this Victory Hill area turned out be ex-pat central. We may have explained already but expat is short for ex patriot and basically refers to westerners who have settled in a country. This area of Victory Hill used to be the cult backpacking area but now it has been turned into a s...