Chilled one minute drilled the next!
So after 6 days on the party capital island of Thailand all roads have led me back to Bangkok where I now find myself sitting to report on the last week or so's activities.
Where to begin - Ko Phanang is one of the better islands i've been to so far. It's not outright breathtakingly gorgeous and in the lead up and aftermath of full moon the beach can resemble a rubbish dump, but the atmosphere and nightlife is nothing short of sensational! We were staying for 6 nights after being on Ko Samui for 3 nights too long (full of families and ladyboys) and we booked into some cool beachside bungalows for about 4 quid a night. We managed to amass a solid unit of men and women consisting of 4 swedes, 4 canadians, me and the ozzy (i'm flying the flag for England as best as possible but somehow a fair few chavs have managed to slip over here which is not good!)
It's hard to remember which night was which as we mixed chilling ad watching dvd's in the aptly named Lazy House with going full out and getting absolutely rendered on Sunrise beach. The odd mushroom potion was thrown in sporadically and all in all the week kind of merges into one. I did meet up with Kate and her sister who I know from London but ended up getting absolutely ruined on my first Thai buckets of the holiday. The fact I had only eaten 2 boiled eggs for breakfast probably didn't help and for those of you in the sweepstake this was where I lost my camera and had my favourite shoes nicked! (sorry Cazza!) I also lost the plot slightly and having only met Kate twice before I apologise now for being a slightly drunken Freel liability (most of you may have seen me like this once or twice before!) The day after was a relaxing one and we hired some bikes and found a deserted beach which was most pleasant and just chilled a bit in the lead up to full moon.
Mushroom night has been discussed below and the night before full moon was destined to be a quiet one. Myself and Nick went to watch the Mai Tai boxing and see some Thai guys kick the living shit out of each other. I have photos and videos of this and once I get a minute to teach myself how to upload them on here I'll try my best (maybe Christmas). After this we were heading home but I coaxed Nick into the mountain bar for one and as we walked in we were greeted like locals. This is when I first felt that I had arrived on the holiday as the bar was full of people we'd met over the past 2 weeks and the swedes and canadians were cheering us in. We had a top night and got to bed about 5ish.
FULL MOON - The event itself is actually held the day after the full moon and is pretty much just an excuse to get absolutely royally spasticated on a beach about 100 metres long with about 20,000 other crazy kids. We warmed up by painting each other with Swedish flags (I'm a team player and they had the paints) and other psychadelic patterns and had a few warm up beers before heading down to the beach. Some of the mushroom men went for their daily shake but being a beer lover and having tried my one for the holiday I stuck on the 6.4% Chang. Highlights of the evening include watching a couple fucking in the middle of the beach at 1am (very early and clearly English, probably northern!), watching the sun rise on the beach in a deckchair with 2 tuk tuk drivers and their families, going for a 10am swim with my Swedish mate Toby and both saving each other from drowning and breaking my second camera which i'd bought the day before for 100 quid (big bucks out of my budget!). It is one of those things you have to do in your life, it is crazy but it is also a bit Maguluf meets Fabric meets Uni Nightclub. Granted the setting is slightly better but for me it's one of those things that should only be done once or maybe twice (and my second will be next month with the Fox!)
The following day was a bit of a write off after about 20 Changs and getting to bed at 11am and then yesterday I left the island on my monumental 17 hour mission back to Bangkok. For those of you concerned about my literary progression I have been keeping a weekly diary and have now nearly read 3 whole books! Am currently on Dirty Havana Trilogy which is absolute filth (Cheers Tommy!). Haven't quite got round to starting on Homer (not Simpson Off) yet but am sure I will get to it soon.
I am off to book a trip to Cambodia and the next 3 weeks will see me flying solo through Cambodia and Vietnam and then hooking up with Toby in Laos for a bit of tubing down the Mekong. At the end of that the Silver fox will be coming to join me by which time I may be resembling Osama bin laden and may have just transformed from pinkish to rouge!
So after 6 days on the party capital island of Thailand all roads have led me back to Bangkok where I now find myself sitting to report on the last week or so's activities.
Where to begin - Ko Phanang is one of the better islands i've been to so far. It's not outright breathtakingly gorgeous and in the lead up and aftermath of full moon the beach can resemble a rubbish dump, but the atmosphere and nightlife is nothing short of sensational! We were staying for 6 nights after being on Ko Samui for 3 nights too long (full of families and ladyboys) and we booked into some cool beachside bungalows for about 4 quid a night. We managed to amass a solid unit of men and women consisting of 4 swedes, 4 canadians, me and the ozzy (i'm flying the flag for England as best as possible but somehow a fair few chavs have managed to slip over here which is not good!)
It's hard to remember which night was which as we mixed chilling ad watching dvd's in the aptly named Lazy House with going full out and getting absolutely rendered on Sunrise beach. The odd mushroom potion was thrown in sporadically and all in all the week kind of merges into one. I did meet up with Kate and her sister who I know from London but ended up getting absolutely ruined on my first Thai buckets of the holiday. The fact I had only eaten 2 boiled eggs for breakfast probably didn't help and for those of you in the sweepstake this was where I lost my camera and had my favourite shoes nicked! (sorry Cazza!) I also lost the plot slightly and having only met Kate twice before I apologise now for being a slightly drunken Freel liability (most of you may have seen me like this once or twice before!) The day after was a relaxing one and we hired some bikes and found a deserted beach which was most pleasant and just chilled a bit in the lead up to full moon.
Mushroom night has been discussed below and the night before full moon was destined to be a quiet one. Myself and Nick went to watch the Mai Tai boxing and see some Thai guys kick the living shit out of each other. I have photos and videos of this and once I get a minute to teach myself how to upload them on here I'll try my best (maybe Christmas). After this we were heading home but I coaxed Nick into the mountain bar for one and as we walked in we were greeted like locals. This is when I first felt that I had arrived on the holiday as the bar was full of people we'd met over the past 2 weeks and the swedes and canadians were cheering us in. We had a top night and got to bed about 5ish.
FULL MOON - The event itself is actually held the day after the full moon and is pretty much just an excuse to get absolutely royally spasticated on a beach about 100 metres long with about 20,000 other crazy kids. We warmed up by painting each other with Swedish flags (I'm a team player and they had the paints) and other psychadelic patterns and had a few warm up beers before heading down to the beach. Some of the mushroom men went for their daily shake but being a beer lover and having tried my one for the holiday I stuck on the 6.4% Chang. Highlights of the evening include watching a couple fucking in the middle of the beach at 1am (very early and clearly English, probably northern!), watching the sun rise on the beach in a deckchair with 2 tuk tuk drivers and their families, going for a 10am swim with my Swedish mate Toby and both saving each other from drowning and breaking my second camera which i'd bought the day before for 100 quid (big bucks out of my budget!). It is one of those things you have to do in your life, it is crazy but it is also a bit Maguluf meets Fabric meets Uni Nightclub. Granted the setting is slightly better but for me it's one of those things that should only be done once or maybe twice (and my second will be next month with the Fox!)
The following day was a bit of a write off after about 20 Changs and getting to bed at 11am and then yesterday I left the island on my monumental 17 hour mission back to Bangkok. For those of you concerned about my literary progression I have been keeping a weekly diary and have now nearly read 3 whole books! Am currently on Dirty Havana Trilogy which is absolute filth (Cheers Tommy!). Haven't quite got round to starting on Homer (not Simpson Off) yet but am sure I will get to it soon.
I am off to book a trip to Cambodia and the next 3 weeks will see me flying solo through Cambodia and Vietnam and then hooking up with Toby in Laos for a bit of tubing down the Mekong. At the end of that the Silver fox will be coming to join me by which time I may be resembling Osama bin laden and may have just transformed from pinkish to rouge!
posted by Freely at 9:49 PM
1 Comments:
Harkers lad,
The swedes were very fit but one was with her slightly liberal boyfriend and the other was a bit too young!
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