Blogs from Ko Yao, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 4

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Rain stopped play today and after watching Andy and Nix play too many games of cards, Paul sat by himself for an hour or so to save his sanity. We then made the decision to finally leave our little corner we called home. The storm was pretty intense and kept us indoors all day. ABout 6pm we went to tthe village to type up our journal and check on our emails. After 10 nail biting minutes the camera pictures were finally burnt onto CD (though not before the guy in the shop said he lost the pics and managed to wipe them off the camera!) Mission accomplished we reurned to a special going away meal of the amazing Massaman curry. After afew drinks we returned to our bungalow, saying farewell to what was our last night ... read more

Exploring time!!! Awake at 0900 (gasp) we were shopping for supplies by 11. Remembering though we were on a very small very Thai island with a small market street and considering I have only shopped in a supermarket this was quite hard but also fun! Bananas straight from the tree!, rice that comes from big industrial bags that have come straight from the paddy fields and they measure what you want. Chicken that they chop off the whole chicken in front of you! (quite gross) and a great big fish that I picked myself from the bags of fish just delieverd by the fisherman and in bags on the floor! (so Just the basics, chicken, fish and rice, water to drink and cook with......just like in the corps! Around 12 we were getting briefed up on ... read more

I am writing this blog Monday night! so not much springs to mind about what happened on Day 10 of the 'Big Adventure' We did however have a productive few hours in town during whuch time we updated our travelblog and caught up with our emails. Despite our best attempts we only made it as far as our favourite spot! - Sabai Corner Another very relaxed evening spent drinking and eating and chatting with Colin and our new found friends - Neil and Steve. However our peaceful atmosphere was broken by two new young drunk German lads. They invited themselves to our table aided with a bottle of cheap jaegermeister! They were hilarious though, one of them looked and sounded exactley like a younger version of Borat! The other lad looked like he came straight out ... read more

Today we werent as burnt, more 3rd degree than secound!! Feeling brave we ventured onto the beach, wrapped up like Thai construction workers!! Exploring the coast back towards town revealed no spot suitable for sunbathing, so after a quick dip in the rocky sea(still clothed!!), we wanderd back to the bungalow. The afternoon was spent eating and chilling downstairs. A quick jaunt into town allowed us to check our e-mails and start typing up our journal. Night time was the now traditional routine, dinner at 830, then beers and chit chat with Colin and any guests wanting to join us. It is worth noting the amazing Massaman curry we had, probably the best Thaiu food weve ever eaten!! (3 pounds between the two of us!!!) THOUGHT FOR THR DAY "we could really do with a pack ... read more