To clear up what appears to be an unclear point for many, Phuket is an island! Admittedly it so close to the mainland if you were a giant you could spit and hit it, meaning on a map it looks like part and parcel of the mainland. But having been here/there, we can assure you it is not.

Now with that cleared up we believe we left you last when we left Singapore with no supposed border issues, now we had our extended Thai visa in advance. Well did you really think that was going to happen????!!!! Unless you are nuts of course you didn't!

Immigration, Phuket airport, we go to separate officers both handing over our passports on the page the visa is on so they know we have it pre arranged and just to stamp us in for our 90 days. They do their bit pass it back and we set off to get our bags but check the stamp just incase…….Wait, Stop. Hold it, yet again we found the 'Muppet' of the bunch, as David's officer had only stamped him until 22nd October.

A few minutes later his blood pressure lowered they had amended this, but surprisingly only with a pen! Thankfully though it all goes on to your passport electronically also so they had done that so any checks will come up clear.

Bags collected, we got a ticket for Phuket town and went to get our bus, only to be faced with the next hitch. They didn't have enough people to go to the town, so instead we ended up heading directly to the beach resort which had meant to be in a few days.

A day or two into our stay it had stopped raining at last and we had got a good hotel, more suited to our holiday mode we are now in than backpacker. The sun was shining everyday and beach life became the norm followed by a few lengths in the pool at tea time.

Here we stayed with this routine for two weeks, but the events that took place at the expense of other people were ones we didn't quite expect.

Firstly there was a collision of mopeds involving three women tourists, all of which survived and only one seemed she may have badly hurt one leg. This one we were witness to while walking to the beach. The second moped accident was just in front of a restaurant we were in at tea time, but this time it was two locals and again no one was seriously hurt.

The other events all happened at the beach, most of which were due to peoples own stupidity. The sea around Phuket has rips and undercurrents everywhere, with waves easily 15feet high been common as they break on the beach. Lifeguards warn to stay where you can stand and be waist high when its broke over you but as usual people don't listen. On the day we chose to stay away from the beach and sea as it was clearly to bad to be around, one person died and three others had to be rescued.

On a day we were at the beach we saw the lifeguards go out to people at least twice and a young boy was left in the sea on his own playing with a stick, which resulted in a wave hitting him and the stick becoming lodged in his thigh, shortly after came the trip to hospital! So just in the time that we actually saw things happen, a good few holidays were ruined by people possibly not taking the care they could.

We had remained fixed at the beach area of 'Karon' as the tuk tuks wanted silly money to get between the other beaches and with the proof of two accidents, the roads here were not anywhere near as quiet as the ones on Kho Pha Ngan where we had rented our mopeds. So we were content to stay put.

As for food, well it has much improved since our last blog much to our delight. A place we took to going most nights, gives you a small pot animal each every time you get change. We managed to gather quite a collection, but as it was a mixture of animals that would be in either a 'Zoo' or a 'Farm', we named it the "Fazoo" collection. Nifty name hey?!
Well all told that about wraps it up for us and the "Fazoo" in Phuket, but now with a growing tan we are setting off tomorrow (been Tuesday 6th) to the Island of Ko Samui to see what it has to offer us.