Thursday, January 10, 2008

what i railey railey want

Dear everyone,
Apologies for the lack of posting recently. We have been on the move pretty much all the time since my last entry and internet access has been scarce, or slow, so I have a bit too much to catch up on. We have made it it out of Thailand, through malaysia, and into singapore. So here's the end of thailand story....
As predicted, new years eve was really funny. We thought we'd be the only people in Krabi town but it turned out a few people had got stuck there due to accomodation demands on the beaches, so we ended up having a great time, despite intentions of an early night. Krabi is famous for, as well as being the aforementioned transport hub, having some great traffic lights in the shape of
ape men. It also had some fantastic dodgy little bars, one of which we settled in for the evening, and met lots of transients including the lovely saskia and ronny, some very funny nice scottish people called elaine and kirsty, someone called heather who had the same hair as heather jones at mtv, and even gandalf. In the bar they had no music as such, but played DVDs of Live 8 which we played along to onthe various musical instruments lying around. And we sang along, here I am joining in with Marti Pellow. And here we all are at midnight. Transport hubs rule
Despite staying up til 4 we decided to head for Railey beach at 9 in the morning on new years day, which turned out to be a mistake because the boat broke down and the driver spent half an hour fixing it with an axe. There are no pictures of this beacause Zoe was trying not to be sick and I was on the phone to Stu who was still up on NYE despite the 7 hour time difference.
We got to Railey eventually which was very
beautiful but a pricey tourist trap. It was fab though, there were lots of climbers there due to the large amount of mountains, and we went sea kayaking in some deserted lagoons which you have to canoe throug tunnels to get to. Here is Zoe advertising a canoe in the style of The Price is Right. While kayaking we saw a ghost pirate ship. you can see it on this picture. This is the island we kayaked round. I would like to say I took that photo from a helicopter but I actually just took a photo of the brochure. The island we kayaked to had the whitest sand we have ever seen. Here is my photo evidence. Zoe discovered that in a life jacket, and with her hair pretending to be a brace, she looks like ugly betty. Railey also has some brilliant caves.
Our favourite thing about Railey was the comedy enormous towels we got given. Here is
mine. Here is Zoe's.
Then
Jeanine and Kate and Joy turned up which was much fun. Spot the person who's been sunbathing for a month. We only saw them for one night but clearly we made the most of it. We miss them.
One night, while getting ready, Zoe noticed that when I've washed my hair I look like exonerated murderer
Ron Williamson in the photo from his biography we've both just read. Zoe however can do a better facial impression.
And that's it really. We got a bus to Malaysia after that, but I'll fill you in on that story when I have a bit of time.
Just to finish off, here is Zoe eating some
corn on Railey beach, here is me demonstrating the beach is as white as my t shirt, and here we are being affectionate.
Til next time x

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love you both and you're looking fantastic.

I've been screaming with laughter reading your blog. Normally i only scream with laughter when i've overdone the 5-htp.

Have fun xx