I think the last time I wrote this we were just about to head down to Koh Phangan for the Full Moon Party. Three buses, one boat, one van and a sleep on the floor next to the harbour and we were there. It was not the most straightforward jorney but getting chucked about from bus to bus in the middle of the night was surprisingly not too bad and we arrived in quite good spirits. The bungalows we were staying in weren't so bad either give or take the uselessness of the shower (it was actually quicker to pour water into a bottle to clean with!). But the resort was right on the beach so it wasn't all bad. The Full Moon Party took place a couple of nights later and it was a lot of fun. We bumped into Shawn who we'd met in Kanchanaburi which was quite a coincidence considering there was rumoured to be around 8000 people turning up. We spent the evening drinking from buckets (the boys had sangsom but I stuck to vodka wanting to still be alive the next day!) and wandering along the beach watching the various fire shows and things that were going on. Lawrence and Shawn both had a go a the fire skipping rope which was funny to watch, for me anyway! The hair on Lawrence's knee still hasn't grown back! We ended up staying til 8 in the mornign and the sun was up. It was quite weird how quickly it went from being night time to day and also how funny people looked still dancing away on the beach at 7am. Needless to say, the next day was a little bit of a write off with mostly just catching up on sleep and reading.

The rest of Koh Phangan was a bit hit and miss with the weather but we did manage to hire a bike on a couple of days and explore the island a little bit. MY favourite part was the beach we found that was white sand and good for a swim but bizzarly completely desserted! We spent a whole day there and for most of it were literally the only two people on the beach (apart from a dog who came and got sand all over us).

After this we got a boat to Koh Samui, where we stayed at Buddah Beach. Unfortunately it completely poured down the entire time we were there so we barely saw any of the island at all, never mind go to the beach. It was typically beautiful the day we left but we were on an early morning boat which was a shame.
After an over night stop in Krabi (which was supposed to take 4 hours including the boat from Koh Samui but took about 10!) we were off to Koh Phi Phi.

Koh Phi Phi has easily been my favourite place so far. We arrived at about 10am and after finding the cheapest hotel we could we went straight to the beach for the day. The water was beautifully clear and there wasn't a cloud in the sky, I was actually in heaven! While we were there we managed to bump into Shawn again and he managed to show us how to get drunk on the island on the cheap. We got buckets of drink for free just for being in certain bars at certain times, it was great! Plus they had all of the fire games and whatnot that they'd had at the full moon party but it was less manically busy so more fun.
On one of the evenings we walked up to the view point just before sunset to have a look and it was beautiful. Definitely worth all of the stairs! While we were up there we saw lots of monkeys and some of them were indeed cheeky monkeys! We also went on a Sunset tour trip one afternoon which was a lot of fun. It took us to the island where they filmed The Beach. We went snorkelling along the way where there was apparently a shark in the water which caused my quick get away back to the boat. Although I had already seen some very pretty fish, my favourites were the bright blue ones. On the way back to Phi Phi we stopped at Monkey Beach and as we pulled up loads of monkeys appeared (surprising given the name) and we fed them pineapple and water from bottles. That was my highlight of the trip as they were so cute and so close up. They also clearly expected food by the way so many of them appeared out of nowhere when they heard the noise of the boats. It seems monkeys aren't too fond of Lawrence as both times we were up close to us he managed to annot them somehow!! It wasn't really his fault on the beach though, it seems that the monkey he offered pineapple to had had enough of it!

We really liked Koh Phi Phi and didn't want to leave but dragged ourselves away and come here to Phuket. I think we've become beach snobs because neither of us are very keen on the one here! Its massive and very clean but its so full of sun loungers and parasols theres literally nowhere else to sunbathe so you have to pay to sit on the beach. Its the first time we've seen this in Thailand and have found that in spite of the people walking by constantly trying to sell dresses, watches, sunglasses and goodness knows what else we literally could be anywhere. Having said this the sea is really wavey which is quite a lot of fun and we have had two nice days at the beach even though its been kind of overcast! We were supposed to go to Koh Lanta this morning but didn't quite make it and as much as this is killing me I'm taking the blame. I managed to set the alarm clock on Lawrence's phone for the evening instead of the morning (what an idiot) so waking up at 8:10 and realising we were an hour late was not the greatest start to the day! Luckily they've just changed our ticket for tomorrow without charging us any extra. Lawrence says this makes up for us missing the flight to Paris that time; I disagree!! We're looking forward to Koh Lanta though which is where we're spending the last few days we've got left here in Thailand before our visas run out!

Hope everyone's ok, I have actually sent some postcards but according to mum they haven't arrived yet. I'm not massively surprised though as I could still see them in the postbox two days after posting them!!