A week in Phuket

Well after a week in Phuket we are so relaxed and happy it unbelievable.. We are staying at a fantastic place called Sansuko Ville which is near Cape Panwar and is run by a lovely couple from Goole!!!!! They have organised everything for us from a motorbike to a night out in Patong to see the ladyboys to a full Sunday roast dinner!!! We have met a really nice couple called Alan and Una (pictured here with Anthony) who are from Ireland and are on a round the world trip for 8 months..

We have managed to take ourselves away from the bath tub, air-con, swimming pool and bar for a few hours to go to the beach and it was really nice as only 5 other people where there!!!!

Anthony has been to the Thai Boxing on Friday night (after a mad day trip to Myanmar (Burma) to renew our Thai visa). The thai boxing was really good and saw 2 knockouts and in the 8 fights, god those boxers are brave after watching them take endless kicks to the face, ribs and kidneys..

We will be moving on to another island (Kho Lanta) on Tuesday where we will be spending a few days relaxing on the beach again, reading books and generally doing nothing!!!!

We have also met a young 19yrs from Crewe who was on his way to Australia and he joined us on the night out in Patong and he pulled as soon as arrived in the bar area, shame was he met his lady walking out of the gents toilets... She was a very attractive lady and one hell of a strong jaw line.. this is the only picture we have with her clothes on!!!! and Will would not appreciate any bad photo's on facebook, but if you e-mail anthony he'll gladly send you some!!!!!!

Enough for now and we will be in touch soon with some more pictures of beaches and hopefully some stories about what we get up to during the next part of our adventure...

Hello from Thailand

Hello to you all from Phuket, Thailand.... We left Cambodia just over a week ago and spent the first few days of civilisation in Bangkok where we had to quickly get used to things - like cars driving on the left, people taking notice of red traffic lights, trains!! and of course lady boys!!!!

We are now in Phuket where we will be staying for a few days so we will be enjoying the golden sands, crystal clear water and of course the bloody good food here!!!!

We are both feeling so much better and happier to be away from Cambodia - as much as we loved our time in Trengers it was time to move on.. It was really hard to say goodbye to our Khmer family, Mekong Blue (Chan you are a legend!!) and a few of the other VSO volunteers!!

Our departure from VSO was pain free really which was quite a surprise considering how anal they have been about certain things for the last 12 months. Anyway I digress so lets get back to our fabulous time in Bangkok!!!

We arrived after a 17 hour journey at our hotel and the first thing we noticed was a strange thing in the bathroom that holds water... yes it was a bath!!! so we made the most of it and washed our clothes in it using hot water (first time in 15 months!!). We did lots of touristy things in Bangkok like go to the Grand Palace, Sleeping Budha, Patpong (or Ping Pong to the sex tourists), Khosan Rd, Skyrail etc... We also managed to find some half decent street food - a chicken pancake that tasted like a warm chicken samosa...Mmmmmmmmm

Our week ended in Bangkok with yet another long journey to Phuket where we got the overnight train from Bangkok to Surat Thani and then a 5 hour coach to Phuket.. The place we are staying at is nice and the strangest thing is that the couple who own it are from Goole and they used to work in Hull!!!!!!!!! Lots to talk about over a very cheap Singha beer (45p per can!!!)

I'll add some photo's to the next blog posting which will have more updates on our plans to do a thai cooking course, a mad visa run to Burma!!!!! and many other things...

see you soon
Anthony & Rachel