Hi Joe - glad to hear you are having such a wonderful time and I hope you will be able to get a lot more in in the next week before you come home

Hey Big Guy (Joe),

I'm very impressed with your blogs, and pleasantly surprised by your interest in old Thai ruins! I would have thought endless trips to French food markets, churches etc would have put you off cultural places for life.

The beach party's sound pretty cool, a million miles from rainy Manchester! We should see if they are staging any next summer at La Tranche Sur Mer or any of the other exotic Vendeen Beaches!

We had Ali round for a meal last week and having gone for a drinks beforehand she made as much sense as you do in some of these blogs! Enjoy the rest of your trip m8 and ill see you when you get back.

p.s: Instead of relaxing on beautiful Thai beaches i'll be sleeping on old Eastern Bloc trains for a month. I'm now wondering why?

Take care bud

I'm really sorry to hear that Johnny's coming home so soon. what's not to like about spending a week dodging people trying to set fire to you? perhaps the three of you could have gone somewhere more relaxing!

Be careful when you're diving. It's probably not the sharks that you need worry about but the drunken jet-skiers. Don't get the bends.

You'll be home yourself in a week and I'm looking forward to that. Please remind me about what date and time I need to be at the airport to pick you up. Will Ben want a lift too? He's very welcome (although I seem to recall that he lives a long way away!). If Zoe wants a lift to the airport to meet you, that's no problem.

make the most of your last week.

Hello Jo. It was good to catch up with your blog when we got back from holiday. We spent a week narrow boating from Doncaster to Retford. Very pleasant but embarrassingly unadventurous in comparison to what the rest of the family are doing. Ali stayed last night and showed us her 600 photos of Brisbane and the Solomon Islands so I am regretting the lack of photos on your blog less than I might. Nick is about to book his interrail ticket. Four weeks on trains followed by a week in Nice with Ryan's rich friend. They are both working at a local pub to pay for it. The fruit picking your mother referred to is actually loading flowers into Tesco lorries but that's been put off for a few weeks.

Keep up with the posts.

Lots of love, Janet xxx

hi all in pang nan atm home of the infamous full moon party tho i hav missed it it was either that or the trek so i chose the trek. met up fine with ben and jonny and were we hav chilled out on the beach in samui and then gone out to see this live thai band called ovada who were amazing i got talking to them after the show and they gave me a free cd so i will b playing it a lot wen i get bak. the tesco bag is holding up rly well surprisingly will write again if anything interesting happens xxxx

'Tesco Value rucksack' doesn't surprise me at all. She treats you well doesn't she? x

Dearest Joe,

Hope that Johnny and Ben have arrived safely and joined you now. I would worry about the three of you drinking too much, but it doesn't sound like you've been exactly stinting yourself alone, so hopefully you won't overdo it. Try hard not to get so drunk again that you can't tell the difference between me and Nicky and swear at inoffensive paramedics.

Your jungle trek sounds fantastic. I hope that you've got lots of photos - tho happy for you to leave the leeches where they belong. How is the Tesco Value rucksack holding up to it all?

love Mumxxx

Joe hello lovely hope your all alright! the boys have just left and didsbury is so quiet! zoe and i keep meaning to meet up but she has job getting problems so it hasn't quite worked yet! hope your all having brilliant adventures, it sounds like you are already! come home soon before i have to start making new friends! look after yourselves! lots and lots of love Katie x x x x xx x

also jonny; lads on tour? awful!

just finished my 3 day jungle trek and apart from an 8 hr trek thru leech infested swamps it was amazing rode elephants, stayed with a tribe called the karen for two nightsin the middle of the jungle, went bamboo rafting and swam in a waterfall so have had a great time. we got bak and it was mike the guy iv been travelling withs birthday so we got very drunk with all the ppl we went trekking with. just at chang mai airport now bout to go to bangkok and meet up with jonny and ben, zoe is fine we hav been communicating via email. thank nain and taid for the money for me. and dad iv already listened many times to matts 3 demo tracks and i love them so make sure they put some more up soon xxx

Dearest Joe,

Sounds good news from Johnny and Ben - Johnny, you can stop avoiding me now - I WAS annoyed with you, but have got over it! Hope that you and Ben have a good flight over and meet up with Joe safely.

Been planning Nain and Taid's diamond wedding party on Saturday 9 August - put it into your diary now. They've invited the entire village through the parish newsletter so might get a lot of visitors. Trying hard to persuade them to have it all at home, but they worry about space (and having to tidy up I suspect!). they've given me £60 for you, so you can splash out literally and metaphorically when you're at the Islands.

hope that the jungle trekking was good.

Why no news from Zoe?? Hope she's got back from Newquay safely and is OK.

Much love,

Mum xx

Hi Joe,

hope everythign is still going brilliantly (sounds like it is). If u get a chance check out:

http://www.myspace.com/truedeco

It's Matt and Beth's band's site and the three demo tracks are great. There's also some cool photos and album art. They are hoping to record the rest of their 20-odd tracks over teh summer,

love

Dad

cheers again 4 ur advice rosa. lots of ppl reccomended julies to me on the way up to chang mai but unfortunatly it was full. so we r staying in an equally cheap place called eagles inn n0.2 hav booked the jungle trek for 3 days starting tomorrow, sunday, its lots of walking some bamboo rafting and i get to ride an elephant again. only this time i wont be drunk, i think. sorry not writing blogs the computer keeps freezing weneva i try. in chang mai atm went out last nite to watch the football and met thgis canadian girl and her boyfriend then this big netherlands man came over and invited us all to his bar wich he was keeping open for the netherlands france game that didn't start till 2 in the morning over here. we got there and it was this tiny bar with about 200 netherlands fans filling it up so was a great atmosphere, and a fun night. wont be available for the next few days but will tell all wen i get bak thanks again 4 ur messages. xxx