happy belated christams eveyone!!!! and a hppay new year!!!xxxx finally back on line the island i ended up going to make si phan don look busy! the internet was too slow to keep up with typing let alone do anything else and connection to slow for skype to work so got to speak to some people on xmas day when they called me! was on little ko chang for xams, took us 2 days traveling to get there for south of laos. really nice island water is loike bath water and p...

so finally left 4 thousand islands such a lovely place! meet some really nice people there and quite a big group of us spent the last week or so eating sunbathing and playing cards. really nice to wake up early and lay in the hamock for abit reading/sleeping again then walk a few steps into the river for a wash! the water comes from there anyway and the river was much closer than the shower. saw quite a few water snakes dont think any of the bite....maybe if you...

hello! thanks for you messge mary but no email form you but thank anyway for my birthday treat! you should send me you home tel number and il call you.good luckfor the jobdad told mexx anyway had the quietest birthday on record but was nice day really. traveled to mae slaong, north west of chiang rai small town for the riding (tell you about in a sec) journey up the mountain the the back of a truck was exiting traveled with a german guy i meet on the bus st...

hello! so hacve left pai now after i got some money taken from my room one night when i was out. made it easier to leave then! wasnt very nice to come back and find the window had been broken into it was such a nice quite place but there you go! theres bad people everywhere i guess. insurace will hopefully pay it so not too much of a prob there. just spent an hour tin the post office trying t send all the stuff, in the end it cost me loads so should get there ...

ok so il keep it simple as im sure mum wasnt the only one to be confused over adding to the last message! ANYWAY.... yes am still in pai just cant leave this place! was going to go back to chiang mai for the festival but then decided to go for the quiter option of staying here. its a light festival which involves loads of dangerous looking fireworks lanterns and candela dn insence they put in hand made boats from the leaves and trunk of a banana tree. a lady w...