Sawasdee! Greetings from sunny Phuket! Gold Coast of Southern Asia! The Hotel.... Jon and I are staying at the Merlin Beach Resort, about 5 minutes south of the main beach Patong. Being summer, and the monsoon season, the place is strangely empty. This gorgeous resort has 3 massive pools with surrounding palms, a beach either side to watch for oncoming tsunamis and enough restaurants and bars to keep me fed and jolly for a month! It's amazing how many ways you can use a lychee! We have indulged in room service, yummy curries, afternoon swims and massages on the beach with actual waves crashing instead of a CD playing in the background. Thai massages are a little different from the norm we expect at home - a lot more cracking and pulling of phalanges than I
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