I am now in Koh Phangan, awaiting the full moon party tomorrow night. I have a little hut by the beach and am surrounded by palm trees, it's all pretty idyllic although I'm not naturally a beach person. The journey here was long and arduous. It was 24 hours between leaving Kanchanburi and arriving at the hotel, and that trip included two buses, two taxis, then another bus and finally another taxi. However it was all worth it. Half way down I met a couple of Londoners. former casino workers and an ex-couple who still manage to argue like a couple! He is a bit of a cockney wide boy while she is like a Catherine Tate caricature (she even said 'what a liberty' at one point.) But they are a good laugh and I find one of the things about travelling is its best to take everyone at face value, if you have a certain type of person in mind to hang out with you'll only really meet that kind of person. It's been a period of stereotypes in that regard. In Kanchanaburi I met a classic northerner from Buxton ('Where't water comes from'), and a career traveller in his 50s who had packed in his job a decade ago, he was both very interesting and quite pretentious. I have managed to blag a couple of free nights in Phuket (disappointingly pronounced poo-get) so will head there for diving before going back to Bangkok for a flight to Cambodia. I will update the photos on the blog when I find an internet cafe that can do it.
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