Patong Beach - 26th January 2008 Left Phang Nga on a normal bus to Phuket Town, a 2 hour ride and then into a taxi to Patong beach just for the day. Place is the busiest and most touristy place in Phuket and where all the package holiday makers go to. I tell you when I got there the beach front and all the tourist bars etc ook exactly like Benidorm - Spain. I am ashamed to say I have now been to them both. Well I thought for one day I would drop the ccultural t...

Hi everyone, Well - went from the hotel on a full day baot trip today. It was fantastic. Picked up from the hotel in the old datsun bench bus fora 20 min ride down to the river, and then as there were 12 of us into 2 longtail boats for the trip. The sun was really beating down but there was also a slight breeze which meant a swell on the sea and so sitting in the front me and a German guy got totally soaked between the islands when we had to go out into open w...

Hi Everyone, Arrived in Phang Nga, a smallish sleepy town after getting the boat in the morning from Phi Phi Don Island to Krabi and then a minibus and then finally a Datsun Sunny with 2 wooden benches on the back......greta fun and weather is superb. Got here around 2pm and checked into a lovely little hotel which is really friendly and cheap too! A huge step up from the shack I was in on Phi Phi island. Tommorrow going on an 8 hour long tail boat ride aroun...

Left Bangkok on Asia Air, cheap internet only airline and big sponsors of Man U, so my son Declan will be well pleased with me! Good flight down to Phuket Island. Then into a taxi which took me the odd 20 miles to Phuket Town. I was intending to then get a boat to Co Phi Phi Island for a few days rest. Unfortunetely I missed the boat by about minutes. Picture me at the end of the pier with the departed boat still in view. Only one thing for it was to book for t...

Third and last day in Bangkok. Thought I should try and do some of the official sightseeing stuff today before I leave. Up early, even had a little swim in the pool. A rule of mine..if you check into a hotel with a pool you should use it once to get you monies worth! Then Off to see the Grand Palace and Bangkok Wat. Took the river boat again and stopped off in a llittle place just by the boat stop for breakfast. Into the Palace and placed was absolutely mobbed....