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heylo there all you lovely people! sorry I have been utterly crap and not written on here yet - if I'm honest things have been a little manic so far... flight was all ok - got to say it was mega lonely - not only was it slightly delayed with a lot of boredom at the airport and unsurity of where the fook I was going... when the flight was actually gonna get in etc... so not too great - long looong flight too - absolutely massive but seriously lacking in people! some people had 3 whole seats to themselves!!! there were (i admit) a few tears - there was just a sense of worry about getting there, what it would be like, and in particular missing you lot and matt big time. a lot harder to get used to than I thought... but anyway got there eventually at about 7am-ish, grabbed luggage - was incredibly protective over it I must say!!! making sure that no one nabbed ANYTHING!!! then once I was through all of that got outside to the baking heat of about 7.30am - insane! and waited for about an hour and a half just for the bus to turn up to then have to sit on some bus for an hour not a clue where I was to finally reach jess and greg! did make it there eventually though you'll be glad to know, and after chilling out in some cafe with a fan (thankfully!) we decided not to get a train, but instead a taxi followed by a bus to a place called hua hin, so that we didnt have to deal with any mega travelling that day! which I must say I was grateful for after having spent just 4 hours on the sweaty sticky bus...!!!
so anyway!!! made it to this hua hin place around 3ish I guess, to struggle to find any form of transport besides a flipping scooter (which lets face it... was NOT going to get the 3 of us AND luggage on!!! what were they thinking?!) so managed to find a little tuk tuk thingy - those silly little motorcycle thingys with like a carriage... not a clue how else to describe them - veeeery wobbly though! so found a nice (and yes a little bit expensive!) hostel to stay at with the luxury of a pool - which we were all very greatful for!!! so pretty much instantly went for a swim, jess and greg had a bite to eat but I was still very unhungry from the massive time change, and then for a walk on the beach :-) unfortunately as we decided to run into it for a swim we realised there were tonnes of jelly fish about - think it was due to the tide coming in, so just had a long stroll along the beach and back to the hotel eventually for showers, then off for dinner and an early night! got to say I was knackerred, big change climate wise and time wise and found it really hard to adjust to... it did get the better of me just before I went to bed leaving me upset but I guess that's just me really!
so then the next day (yesterday!) we chilled out a little more - spent the day around hua hin, lay on the beach for a few hours in the afternoon, took it easy, got a bite to eat - its not the greatest of places to be really - very hot, the jelly fish didnt help, not majorly backpacker friendly, and there are LOTS of prostitutes - as in every bar is just filled with them - nasty nasty business really... grossed us out a fair bit! we spent that night in a different place - couldnt afford the luxury of a pool two nights in a row as great as that would have been!
we were planning on travelling down to krabi near phuket last night on the bus or train but discoverred they were all fully booked... even today when we packed up, left the hostel, got breaky we trekked all the way to the station around 11am and the earliest train we could get was 11pm! meaning another day of paying for a hostel, justr wasting time... so after being messed around a bit a lovely couple with a fancy chauffeur type car took us out of hua hin to the bus station (about a 20 minute ride!) for an amazing price - cant tell you quite how much as I'm still a bit rubbish with converting the money here! but you have an idea at least of whats cheap and whats expensive! so we got to the bus station, waited around, got a 6/7 hour bus, got here to surat thani, couldnt get a boat out to ko samui or koh phangan... so have to spend the night here unfortunately! and jess's card got sucked into an atm... so it's been a bit s*** today to say the least - but am well fed, eventually off to bed for an early one, and up tomorrow for a 7am bus to the pier and boat ride to ko samui!!!!
blimey overload of typing! anyway hope that made some sense to you all, let me know how you are on the message board or send an email or something...
dad how was greece? franch - get any good results for exams? hows the room looking? chris you home yet? when you off to robs? and mum how was edinburgh? house doing ok? thanks again for the lift - was lovely of you to take me and deffinitely hard to leave you...
miss you all a lot more than you know - lots and lots of love to you all - let me know how you are!!!!! L O L & X's, tash xxx
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