From the November 2004 archive...
At last BOWELS!!
Monday, 29 November 2004
Its high time you all learnt about toilets and poo experiences in the world so here goes...
Return to BK
Monday, 29 November 2004
Now that I'm like a seasoned traveller like, I can say BK! (Like Burger King but a city)
Yeah, we arrived at 4am this morning, me in full on Farang trousers, which I have now decided to embrace, but only on the condition I am allowed to sing "YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS!" in an MC hammer type stylee whist I am wearing them.
Sporty freshness in Krabi
Monday, 29 November 2004
Aside from Catherine being eaten by insects, we have been doing a load of other stuff in and around Krabi which is a small town in the south of Thailand. It's kind of a travel stop over for alot of the holiday type islands in the south such as Ko Lanta and Ko Phi Phi. The town itself was label uninteresting by lots of people we spoke to but when we got there we found a load to do and alot of nice places to chill in.
Technical Wank and Old School Kung Fu
Saturday, 27 November 2004
Our bowels have been (reasonably) unscathed until now hence the lack of reporting on the matter however, the websites bowels have been distinctly rubbish and it seems to have been down alot recently due to some problem with Movable Type. I think I've fixed it now finally but if you notice it go wrong let me know what page it was and I'll fix. Don't stop with the comments though it very cool to hear from you all.
Farang Trousers
Saturday, 27 November 2004
Buying a pair of trousers is a traumatic experience in any situation, never mind when the female section of the population are a size eight at the biggest...
Honeymoon's over!
Wednesday, 24 November 2004
We just checked out of our nice luxuary honeymoon style room with air con and a private bathroom and balcony over looking the beach and into a residence that could have been made by me age ten. Ho hum...
The place on Koh Lanta we stayed in was lovely; empty white sandy beach surrounded by jungle and palm trees, warm silver sea, little bar on the beach serving cocnut shakes and cocktails.....extremely dodgy music, though.
All of the small animals in Thailand seem to have selected me as their food of choice, I'm like banana pancake to farang. We went snorkelling the other day, which I was unbelievably spacky at and had to cling on to the side of the boat with Dan coaching me. Unfortunately, all around the boat and near the island were thousends of little bits of snot. The snot, later revealed to be minijelly fish, stung me unrelentlessly all the time we were in the water. I ended up looking like I had a really bad case of measles.
The mosquitos found me first though and they are my most reliable customers. Somehow a bite that on Dan goes away after a day turns into a massive angry red welt on me, also I get at least three times as many. (Cheers to Dr Kate for giving me some anti histamine type stuff)
In other news, snorkeling turns out to be wicked after you get the hang of it, there were millions of multicoloured fish, angel fish and rainbow fish and coral and stuff. I've never seen coral before and it made me feel like I had been made microscopic and was looking at mould really close up (Like David Belamy but cooler).
Being in human soup was one of the most bizzare things I've done. It was completely dark and smelt of armpits and mild panic and arms and legs kept touching me. Everyone in the group coming the other direction was chanting and blowing whistles and the noise was all echoing around the caves. You just had to keep swimming along in what you thought was the direction you started out in.
We're in Krabi Town now and there's a festival with fire works and school children singing and stuff, I'm off to investigate, see you later.
