Alright !!!!!????!?! I'm back with another update,I know it was only a few days since i sent my last one but here is snipet of what i have been up to since getting to Thailand

I board the plane at Kular Lumpar airport not knowing what part of Phuket I was going. I had no accomodation booked, no idea what i was going to do when i got there!! This was a bit out of my comfort zone but this is what I wanted. A challenge !! I get to Phuket speak to the information desk and they have just the place for me. Its in Patong which is a lively place and known to be the Bangkok of the west of Thailand. Its on the beach and sounds like a good laugh so i head there. i have high hopes of theis place as they tell me i have a sea view...perfect...cant wait !! I check in as i have already paid my money at the dek at the airport so to late to get out of it. There is a building sight next door and a jack hammer is going off like crazy and the sea view was like looking at the sea through a letter box. Thats all i could sea through other builings and telphone and power lines !!! I just want to get in and then go for a walk along the beach. The room was clean but by no means spotless. I unpack and go for a walk. I walk along the beach and look at the cliffs and rockfaces around it. I'm hot and pop into Molly Malones Irish Pub on the front. I get talking to a Welsh lad called Sean. He was a good lad and we had a laugh and a couple of beers. As we are chatting the biggest two blokes walk in, skin heads, tattoo's and piercings everywhere. I didnt want to look at them let alone talk to them. They heard Sean's taffy accent and small talk is made as they are from the same Welsh Valleys. i notice one of them has his leg strapped up from the ankle up to his knee. i timidly ask, 'So what you done mate'........'Stung by a Scorpian !! he said'. i couldnt help but look away and smile without getting a right hander. Í asked what happened and he said he took his shoes off to walk around a temple, put his foot back in and it done him. It was only small aswell he said. It looked pretty bad cos all his leg had swollen and gone blue and it had passed into his other leg. I thought about saying something witty about if it had affected his boys in the barraks but i thought better of it...i quite like my teeth as they are. I arranged to meet Sean for beers in mollys and he would show me around as he had been there the night befor so he knew a few places. We met up and went to Batong Road. This is no Ordinary road. This has normal drinks bars, Go Go bars, Ping Pong Bars, lady boy clubs along it. I walked on the other side of the road past the ladyboys clubs as they were all dancing out front mincing it up so that is as close as I got. We went to another few bars and by about 11pm we had had a skin full. Went to a market at the top where Sean told me we could play bar games for drinks against the bar maids. Now I was a bit apprehensive after my maid Cafe experience back in Tokyo but Sean told me they were our king of games like Guess Who and Connect 4. Now this was great news to me. Sean warned me that if I lost i had to buy the bar maid a drink and if I won then she has to buy me one. i was happy with that but Sean said no one beats them cos they are that good. I challenged one girl and done some comedy football stretches which she looked at me like a drunk Idiot .......and I was both drunk and being an idiot. I won the first game to celebration from Sean and myself but it was the best of 3. We start the second and its a game of nerves, i see the panic in her eyes when she makes the mistake and i'm in, i put the last coin in and its a killer blow for the girl, she looks like she is about to cry as i celebrate in front of her like a footballer scoring the winning goal in a F.A Cup Final, i even rub an imaginary custard pie in ther face. I tell her I would like a beer and she flatly refuses (probably cos of the celebs) but i dont care, i am victorious, i tell her to go home and get some practice !! i get my arse kicked in the next game by who i can only describe as the queen of connect 4 she beats me 2-0 and i have to buy her a beer !! They are the rules,i try and argue that i am due one but i'm to drunk to talk so she won that argument !!.....lucky for her!! i get a McDonalds and cant find my way home. I get a lift off a bloke on a scooter and if anyone has ever tried sitting in the back of a scooter when its going along with one hand full on McDonalds and the other hand with a large coke on it, its not as easy as you may think. We both get of covered in coke and hes the second unhappy Thai person I have seen in an hour...oh well.

The next few days were taken up of me getting bitten to pieces on the beach by sand flys but i realised i'm on a beach for another 5 weeks so my feet are in for a pasting. Me and Sean get on well and meet in Molly Mallones every night for a couple of jars, pool, and listening to the house band who are excellent. I stupidly tell them when hammered that i play a bit and forget all about it then next night only for them to pull me on stage and we smash though 'Wonderwall' which was a quality buzz but i was rubbish but at least I gave it a go. 3 days later I get a ferry over to Pi Pi Don Island. Pi Pi Don is where the Tsunami hit hardest in Thailand in 2004 and as its only a small strip of land you can see how the devistation was so bad that it is just getting back on its feet. Its a maze of little alleyways with shops and restaurants and bars. Its a nice little place i I feel at ease when i get of the boat untill a massive down pour hits as soon as I step off. i have to find accomodation and fast !! i book up and follow some bloke all the way to the other end of town where the pavement have now turned into a unpaved mess and its not looking good. He drops me off at the bottom of these steps and tells me to bring my bags. i must have climbed 40 concrete strairs at least in the pissing rain. i opened the door to what i can only describe as a f***ing garden shed !! The door was nearly falling off and the windows didnt lock. There was a small gecko on the wall picking off all the Mosquito's he could get in his mouth. The bathroom had the rock/cliff face running through it and the water was pouring in through the roof, i could have been in a reptile house in London F**king Zoo. I ran out and back to towrads the information desk which was back at the ferry port, angry and wet i stop off at a bar where this bloke looks around to see me red faced and soaking wet. We get chatting and he is from New York and called Garrett. I have a beer and get some better accomodation closer to the town, its a lot better but more expensive which i didnt care about. This one was a bit musky but it done the job. It didnt stop raining all day but i hopped from shop to shop and had a look around. Me and Garrett bump into someone he knows called Adam he had just been back from Monkey beach on a excursion but he had an argument with a monkey that wanted his shirt and it had bitten him and then chased him into the sea along with 10 of his mates !! (I scratched Monkey Beach off my sight seeing list!!!), we end up drink beers and Jumping through Fire hoops on the beach. The next day is Maya Beach where the film was filmed. What a place, it was quality and just like the film. 12 of the lads had a game of football on the beach of which i scored the winner ( a beckham-like chip over the keeper) and then hit the beers and buckets of cocktails. As day turned to night the stars came out and the music was on and everyone agreed it was the best place to be. Everyone got on well and a swim at about midnight was the way forward so everyone got changed into their swim stuff again and get in to the sea. The moon was nearly a full one so you could see all the cliffs and sea perfectly and it was a great laugh and then it was back to drinking again. The booze ran out at 2pm and then bed. We slept on the hardest platic matting known to man. It was off the ground but no one could sleep. Not sure if it was the rats running around on the floor or on the sheeting above us or the crabs or the redbull which is about 4 times the strenth of ours at home. A few of us decided it was more comfortable on the sand so we braved the elements and the nature. We started to drift off when the biggest clap of thunder shock us and the rain came down. Back to the tents. It was so strong the wind and the rain that some of the girls were crying and probably a few of the boys were aswell hahaha, i was loving it, it was only rain and thunder. it was pretty full on though . Hardly any of us got any sleep and we left about 10 am in the morning, tired, bitten to death (again !!! ) but i wouldn't have changed it for the world it was simply brilliant !!....well it was for me and a lot of others but for the people that were crying....they probably had had better nights out!!! Shame...oh well !!

Another two days of rain and I was starting to get the hump with Pi Pi. It is a nice place and i would go back again but in the high season next time. i booked another ferry for the next day to go to Krabi, again no accomodation and was just had to wing it. i woke up the next day to get ready for my 10am ferry and would you believe it brilliant sunshine.....bloody typical !!

Hope all are well

Speak soon

Ben