The Phuket Islands

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damn these looks so beuatiful, Tomorrow we are heading to Phi Phi island.. should be great.

Phuket Town Markets

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hopefully in a few months when my stomach has toughened up I'll be able to eat some of this, until then sticking to the stuff we see cooked fresh.... it looked and smelt fantastic.

Phuket town, day two

Last night we had dinner with Roh's old man and his partner. A really nice meal at the resort they're staying at around the other side of the island. Damn taxi over there was 300 bhat that's ten bucks. I think that was the clinching moment. Today I payed up the 150 bhat. And hired a motor bike for the day. Zipped around all day. Fucking heap of fun. Rode up a few mountains across the island and back again. Even did a lap of the exercise circuit I found. Few pushup situps and we're heading back to do it again Tomorrow, after that we're thinking about both getting them and circumnavigating the whole island. Also today I got a bit of sun. Enough you can see the straps of my bag and necklace. I doubt it will peel but I'll be nice and careful tomorrow. We'll be based in Patong tomorrow so I'll check my email and chuck a few photos online also if I can post here from something better than my phone it would make it easier. I hope every one is doing well. WillCowan

Stupid farangs

Im sure mel will think this one is the funniest. It's twenty past seven. We're sitting on the airport to khoh shan road bus. Having, in a still drunken stupor managed to sleep through the first hour of our 5am alarm. Today we had planned a flight to phuket. And crashed out around 3 o'clock last night having set the some what unattainable target of a 7am flight. So now we are trying to sober up we're on the bus back to our hotel to pick up the Shit i forgot to bring with me (memory card for camera, and that sorta thing) getting painkillers and then make the trip back out to the airport. The good news in this story is bangkok air (my new favorite airline) were kind enough to let up on the next flight with no extra charge, i was truely expecting to have waxed au$80 for the flight and expecting to have to say an extra 100 or so for the next flight. Last night was another night of drunken fun. Down to phuket for a bit to re roh's old man them up north later on. Cheers will 'farang' cowan

Day two

Well yesterday was a fucking blast. Getting in so early ofcause we could only hold off on drinking til about eleven. i got my phone set up now that i'm able to post this update right from my phone, so expect random updates will i sit in bars or on busses. I've forgotten what i wrote here yesterday but some of the highlights were cowboy's springdale bucket. A jug with two shots each of baileys kaluha tia maria baccardi and topped up with milk, if thats not the correct recipie, hopefuly duncan will correct me in the comment section below. Well we are gonna chill out in bangkok for another day and head up to changmai tomorrow. Should be fun and games. I expect tonight should remain a little more chilled than last night. Catch you later.

Bangkok, Thailand

Fuck we made it, it's actually happened we are currently sitting in a little bar of khe san road in Bangkok. Our 9 and and a half hour flight wasn't to shabby, only disrupted by an incredibly drunk Swedish girl. We got in just before sun-up at around 5ish this morning by the time we had got out through customs and organized a taxi it was getting fairly light and starting to warm up. It's shifted from sorta dry to drizzle and a fair bit of rain and now I think its back to dry. We ended up making friends with Kat ( the drunkard ) her Swedish friend and a cowboy named Duncan, we are sharing a room today as they are catching their Swedish connecting flight at about 1am tonight. I'm already getting accustomed to the hot sticky stench of south east Asia, had a great 30 bhat sweat and sour pork with some sort of poached egg ( maybe poached in oil ) breakfast. My stupid shorts that I got fixed in Brisbane broke already and are getting fixed by a little lady with a sewing machine.

Its hit beer o'clock at around 11am, I'm not really sure how the rest of the day has in plan for us, cowboy has a big bottle of Bundy, and there has been talk of it rearing its ugly head some time soon. Tomorrow I think we catch the train to phuket to catch up with Ro's old man. It sounds like a descent amount of time on the train....... Should be interesting. Any ways I do have a Thai sim card now... I believe the number is +6651141951 so drop me a call or text any time you want to know how hot sweaty stinky drunk lost or wet me and Roh are.

So I hope your all having nearly as much fun as I'm having now, keep me updated with your news and gossip.

I'll try and have some phots online soon.

Over and Out

Will Cowan.