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Love Phuket! But it was a bloody horrendous journey getting here!!!
It sounded easy enough on paper and left at a leisurely ten in the morning after breakfast in our favourite cafe. Leaving malaysia was easy as well, short que's at immigration, boat wasn't too delayed. (horrendous boat though,def not enough life jackets for everyone, and the seats had blatently been lifted outta an aeroplane!!) Arriving in Satun was a bit of a shock, a bus tout pushed me and jess right to the front of the immigration queue which was so embarrassing and the authorities didn't look to happy about it either, and then straight to their office where we had to decline and have a ciggerette. was all a bit much!! in the end we kind of gave up and went with the flow, didn't pay too much of a horrendous price either. but by the time we arrived at the bus station (via seriouslely packed ghostbuster van) we'd missed it anyway and had to wait two hours in the middle of no where. from there it was three hours to trang (our guide book had said one and a half!!) on a bus to bangkok which left us so confused. but again we just went along with it.....then luckily got bundled off at trang and into another very backed bus station where we only had to wait half hour before our coach direct to phuket. it was about six by then and we was starving!!! we'd already had two bags of crisps, but theres only so many crisps you can take! to be fair to them, all the thais were very keen on helping us, being the only non-thais there. although we did get directed to about three different bus's before we found ours. And oh, what a treat. plastic chairs. pink frilly curtains, quilted ceiling, two tv's, and a sound system chilll's would be envious of!! which was great when the first three hours was spent watching true lies....in thai!! i thought my ears were going to actually bleed, and my chair was shaking from the bass. luckily though when that finished we was treated to a rendition of Thailands cheesiest pop videos in the last thirty years. it was so awaful i cant even begin to explain. we didn't arrive till half eleven and i was so elated to get off that bus I din't mind being blatently ripped off by a taxi driver in a pimp mobile. getting the feeling they like a bit of the fitty cent round here. he even had blacked out windows and blue lights, my brother would have loved it. shame he can't leave the country for a while!
Anyway we are staying at a really gorgeous place right in the centre of it all, where we have a terrace in a nicely landscaped garden area. we have a fridge again and ....... a hot shower!!!its the best thing in the world lol, and my first one in three weeks!!(its also our second cheapest accomadation at only 400 baht a night) Patong beach, where we are staying, is a bit like tenerife if you like, its big, loud, trashy and has an actually quite gorgeous beach. with quite a big surf. quite dangerous in a bikin!! there are many many tattoo shops here also and me and jess are going tomorrow to get one!! then thursday we are doing a trip which involves white water rafting, elephant riding, jungle trek (!) waterfall (again) and an elephant show. plus lunch!! then friday we are heading off to a quieter beach just north.
oh yeah, and tonight me and jess are getting dressed up and going out, paid 1000 baht each for a ticket to a live bands/club type place and drinks are'free' nine till eleven. so we need to get our moneys worth!!
ps if anyone needs remoinding its MY BIRTHDAY on the 8th of October so unless you want to put money in my bank i better get some fb messages :)
jess and ash xxxxxxx
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