the journey continues

here we are, back in Thailand! my third time in Phuket, and Phi Phi right now.

Its hot, lush, green, muggy and beautiful.

We have swum, shopped, fended off mosquitoes, hoovered pad thai and fruit shakes to our hearts contempt. We'll, when is it ever enough, its only been three days! Could do longer in Thailand easily but somewhere else next time I think is on the cards.

What a mission getting here though. WLG - AKL (8 hour stop over, boozing with Kendra and other welly relics, and a surprise pop up (literally from behind a pillar) from Marina on K rd!!), then flying to Brunei (11 hours), 2.5 hour stopover, then to BKK for another 2.5 hour stopover , then to Phuket. 30 or so hours later its still the 3 of October. Exhausted.

We followed this with a day of debauchery. I gave up before 12am, and found the boys at 9am (!!) the next morning wandering the beach, wet, covered in sand, ears and all, a little incoherent and drunk describing a night of buckets of red bull and whiskey, a popular tourist drink in Thailand, aren't we sophisticated, and many, many night swims....classic

so i put them to sleep and spent the day bathing and swimming as they slept it off!

Classic thai times. I have cuddled a lot of cute little kittens but fear not, it seems they have cleaned up around here. they're not the mangeythings they used to be, most have collars and look pretty healthy. so i cant resist. i may have recieved a few flea bits through...opps.

I have the most ridiculous tan marks too. described as a white tee shirt with the white hand of sauron across myt chest i have achieved a truly shameful, 'english tourist' type lobster burn. hopefully i can even it out once before i get home...

feels like we've been here a lot longer than we have, but thats always the way with travels.

Back to Phuket tommorow, to see a lady about some monkeys and a shop about zara. xxx