what we step out to in the morning
A typical day on the island involves waking up reasonably late in the morning, perhaps wandering the 10 metres down to the beach for a swim in the bath temperature clear sea before putting some manu chao on and sitting down to amazingly cooked pad thai for brunch. Might go for an explore on the rocks afterwards, picking up nice looking shells and then throwing them away again. Might go for lunch in Hat Rin, but its unlikely as although its quite a small town, after deserted beaches its a bit overwhelming. Down the beach the other way is a small restaurant/bar, so i might go down that way instead, see if new friends Hannah and Gretha are there.
i ordered this sandwich a lot. in english money its one pound. dont worry, i also had thai food. thai green curry is a close runner up on saag paneer
The night is somewhat different. Probably in the evening meet with H+G at their bar, lie around on the sloping rock with cushions all over it and have a few beers. A normal evening might end there, as doing nothing all day is pretty tiring, but yesterday stood out slightly, as the Full Moon Party was on. A monthly occasion, it drags thousands (literally, sometimes up to 30k) of whiteys covered in neon paint to one end of the island, with ten massive soundsystems, and tens of thousands of plastic buckets filled with whiskey, coke, red bull and ice. To get there, most people quite sensibly get a taxi, Joel and I decided to walk. Usually the walk is ok, but tonight, the tide was well in, at some parts up to our waist. My jeans were stuck to me for the rest of the night, but i danced it off. By the end of the night, or when we left at 5, the entire beach is covered in bottles, buckets and bombed out backpackers face down and mouth open in the sand. We ended up getting back and lying on cushion rock for another 2 hours, as the light turned from pitch black, to a blue sheen, to bright daylight. Wandered back home and slept.
was like this for the whole beach, about a 15 minute walk from one end to the other
as shown here...
i got a bit over excited by it all
but so did most people
Will try and upload pleasant day photos soon, but at 3 pounds an hour this internet is too expensive.
Big love, Tom.
2 comments:
all right, all right. The sun did come out today for a while and I had a beer with half a dozen people last night, and the Leam looks so inviting so its just as good in England.
We missed you at the other full moon fun - The JP club and some good music was played at Jonathon's but no lying face down in the sand (however nice you make it sound)
Just soooooooo jealous
T's D
why would you want to do all that stuff when you could be back at Sitel? The Avon knocks spots off the Leam, there's a strange man renting your room, and we have an autistic cat that eats whole rabbits in 5 minutes. It's going to be windy and cold bank holiday, so they say, and the sea is still freezing cold - even Max won't go in, so it must be.
I bet you can't wait to come home, how about we all come out and meet you there.
Fab pics, reminds me a little of Ibiza, but no exotic brunches.
Love to you yellowy and whitey people.
x
todays word is ludammmv
which sounds like it's telling you to love a muvver. Good advice as usual.
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