Only a couple of weeks behind but here's some more adventure for you.
After waking up for the last time in Ban's Diving Resort and believing I was underwater without my regulator! You knew this day was going to be a mission. We just about got our stuff packed up and made it out in time to0 check out. We were feeling a bit worse for wear so the few hours wait till the boat left was appreciated. Unfortunately I spent a while sorting my toe that had taken a battering last night and Adrian had failed to get the doctors signature meaning he had to run around like a mad thing in order to get his licence! Eventually Adrian had organised to fax a signature from Phangan which was just as well as the boat was about to leave! We said good bye to Paul and all the friends we'd made diving and went to the boat to Phangan. I was feeling pretty terrible for some reason and after some really unhelpful girls had told me they din't share water we got on the boat. We made it to Koh Phangan after an unpleasant time on the boat and went through the standard unorganised debarkle of getting our bags back before meeting the resort representative for Holiday Beach Resort. We got in a nice car where the passenger was brandishing a huge knife and we were off. When we arrive at the resort the first thing we notice is there's a kitesurfing centre right next door! We checked in and got the key to our 5* beach side bungalow...well..kind of! My first pair of aviators died and we went to bed, we needed a rest!!
After 16 hours sleep we were back on top form. Went for breakfast and check out the resort. So close to the beach, palms trees lining the shore and kitesurfers dotted along the bay. Not sure about the kites and trees mixture but it was cool none the less! We barely made it 100 yards from our bungalow when someone shouted 'Ed!', who on Earth was it?! there was a group of 2 girls and a guy lying on the beach..brain goes in to overdrive trying to work out which of the billion people we've met they could be..then.. it clicks..it's Debbie, Kate and Chris who we met at the dock to get the boat across to Koh Tao! Madness! We sat down beside them and chatted for ages. It was mental, they had met Lochie and Remy and knew about the dog killing!! Then they told us Paul the German was here too and sure enough he showed up, such a small world! We met a guy called Sam who really was an idiot, he'd been on Phangan for 5 months, for one reason 'Pussy on Tap!', what a tool!! We played in the sea with some mental dogs and 3 lunatic thai children, sampled Debs' favourite food, chicken with fried noodles and then relaxed in front of the big screen in the restaurant. Paul taught us a cool card game and we organised to have a big night the following night, it was great to final relax if only for a day!
We woke, 8th of Feb 09, fully revitalised and went for our free (paid for) breakfast. Adrian needed to go see a doctor for a signature and so I chilled and wrote my book, which is become totally epic now Tones! Adrian had to walk miles and took ages and returned once in the middle to collect a vital piece of paper he'd forgotten, what a fool. We collected a load of Samsung and coke ready for the festivities inn the evening and then spent the rest of the day on the beach - lovely. I almost fulfilled a life long ambition to shin up a coconut tree and collect a coconut, but not quite. We had some more chicken noodles and caught the end of Apocolypto the movie, which the girls had seen over 4 times!! We then went to the beach bar to play some pool with Paul. I teamed up with Debs and we immediately became the dream team until we'd had a few too many Changs and got bored with pool and inuendos. We then decided on a game of dare or dare, our own creation! This saw me sampling an irishmans pint, danger and Deb's having to place some fishy ice down her knickers - hahaha. Debs had told me all about how she was a super dooper judo kid and so I challenged her to a fight on the beach. Yeah she totally owned me until she taught me the moves, but I think she was letting me win so not to destroy my self esteem!
Before long we were ready for the harder drink to start so went back to Kate, Chris and Fishy Crotch's room for a game of ring of fire - great game!! Before long Paul the German was very scared about the situation, especially as he doesn't seem to show any emotion and we all had a load of writting on our faces!! Most memorable of which was Adrians 'I love Willies', Deb's 'I love Ed', tash and whiskers and Kates numerous gratuatous arrows!! Before long I'd lost most my clothes, an irish man had made the mistake of joining us, earning 'Wank' on his head and some smart ass had suggested a trip to the beach!! Adrian decided to go skinny dipping in ankle deep water, whereas I opted for the hammock - Bad News!
Amazingly we managed to get up in time for breakfast with the standard Samsung hangover from hell and were ready for Tuk's Tour (Tuk was a legend of a guy working at the resort and a damn good artist). The Tour took us around the easten side of the island and started at a waterfall and then took us to a Chinese Temple where there was an enormous Buddha which turn out to be a huge money box! We then went to a Snake Show! When we arrived there was definately a group or tourists with snakes around their necks and a boa constrictor just chilling on the stage - mental! The 10 cent sound system started blairing and out came the world champion snake dancer!!? The show started with some insane dancing madness before the cobras were brought out, this was fairly average and hwe just waved them around like snake poi. I wouldn't have put their heads in my mouth though!! Then they brought out a proper King Cobra which was very angry and the guy scrabbled around on the floor like a demented toddler while this enornomous, very poisonous snake tried to kill him! Then if that wasn't enough he got 3 snakes all around him that were equally unhappy with him tugging their tails etc!! The show climaxed with us having our picture taken with 2 king cobras and a boa constrictor around our necks! I think Adrian had the one which had been down the guys pants!
After waking up for the last time in Ban's Diving Resort and believing I was underwater without my regulator! You knew this day was going to be a mission. We just about got our stuff packed up and made it out in time to0 check out. We were feeling a bit worse for wear so the few hours wait till the boat left was appreciated. Unfortunately I spent a while sorting my toe that had taken a battering last night and Adrian had failed to get the doctors signature meaning he had to run around like a mad thing in order to get his licence! Eventually Adrian had organised to fax a signature from Phangan which was just as well as the boat was about to leave! We said good bye to Paul and all the friends we'd made diving and went to the boat to Phangan. I was feeling pretty terrible for some reason and after some really unhelpful girls had told me they din't share water we got on the boat. We made it to Koh Phangan after an unpleasant time on the boat and went through the standard unorganised debarkle of getting our bags back before meeting the resort representative for Holiday Beach Resort. We got in a nice car where the passenger was brandishing a huge knife and we were off. When we arrive at the resort the first thing we notice is there's a kitesurfing centre right next door! We checked in and got the key to our 5* beach side bungalow...well..kind of! My first pair of aviators died and we went to bed, we needed a rest!!
After 16 hours sleep we were back on top form. Went for breakfast and check out the resort. So close to the beach, palms trees lining the shore and kitesurfers dotted along the bay. Not sure about the kites and trees mixture but it was cool none the less! We barely made it 100 yards from our bungalow when someone shouted 'Ed!', who on Earth was it?! there was a group of 2 girls and a guy lying on the beach..brain goes in to overdrive trying to work out which of the billion people we've met they could be..then.. it clicks..it's Debbie, Kate and Chris who we met at the dock to get the boat across to Koh Tao! Madness! We sat down beside them and chatted for ages. It was mental, they had met Lochie and Remy and knew about the dog killing!! Then they told us Paul the German was here too and sure enough he showed up, such a small world! We met a guy called Sam who really was an idiot, he'd been on Phangan for 5 months, for one reason 'Pussy on Tap!', what a tool!! We played in the sea with some mental dogs and 3 lunatic thai children, sampled Debs' favourite food, chicken with fried noodles and then relaxed in front of the big screen in the restaurant. Paul taught us a cool card game and we organised to have a big night the following night, it was great to final relax if only for a day!
We woke, 8th of Feb 09, fully revitalised and went for our free (paid for) breakfast. Adrian needed to go see a doctor for a signature and so I chilled and wrote my book, which is become totally epic now Tones! Adrian had to walk miles and took ages and returned once in the middle to collect a vital piece of paper he'd forgotten, what a fool. We collected a load of Samsung and coke ready for the festivities inn the evening and then spent the rest of the day on the beach - lovely. I almost fulfilled a life long ambition to shin up a coconut tree and collect a coconut, but not quite. We had some more chicken noodles and caught the end of Apocolypto the movie, which the girls had seen over 4 times!! We then went to the beach bar to play some pool with Paul. I teamed up with Debs and we immediately became the dream team until we'd had a few too many Changs and got bored with pool and inuendos. We then decided on a game of dare or dare, our own creation! This saw me sampling an irishmans pint, danger and Deb's having to place some fishy ice down her knickers - hahaha. Debs had told me all about how she was a super dooper judo kid and so I challenged her to a fight on the beach. Yeah she totally owned me until she taught me the moves, but I think she was letting me win so not to destroy my self esteem!
Before long we were ready for the harder drink to start so went back to Kate, Chris and Fishy Crotch's room for a game of ring of fire - great game!! Before long Paul the German was very scared about the situation, especially as he doesn't seem to show any emotion and we all had a load of writting on our faces!! Most memorable of which was Adrians 'I love Willies', Deb's 'I love Ed', tash and whiskers and Kates numerous gratuatous arrows!! Before long I'd lost most my clothes, an irish man had made the mistake of joining us, earning 'Wank' on his head and some smart ass had suggested a trip to the beach!! Adrian decided to go skinny dipping in ankle deep water, whereas I opted for the hammock - Bad News!Amazingly we managed to get up in time for breakfast with the standard Samsung hangover from hell and were ready for Tuk's Tour (Tuk was a legend of a guy working at the resort and a damn good artist). The Tour took us around the easten side of the island and started at a waterfall and then took us to a Chinese Temple where there was an enormous Buddha which turn out to be a huge money box! We then went to a Snake Show! When we arrived there was definately a group or tourists with snakes around their necks and a boa constrictor just chilling on the stage - mental! The 10 cent sound system started blairing and out came the world champion snake dancer!!? The show started with some insane dancing madness before the cobras were brought out, this was fairly average and hwe just waved them around like snake poi. I wouldn't have put their heads in my mouth though!! Then they brought out a proper King Cobra which was very angry and the guy scrabbled around on the floor like a demented toddler while this enornomous, very poisonous snake tried to kill him! Then if that wasn't enough he got 3 snakes all around him that were equally unhappy with him tugging their tails etc!! The show climaxed with us having our picture taken with 2 king cobras and a boa constrictor around our necks! I think Adrian had the one which had been down the guys pants!
After having held one of the most deadly snakes in the world, Tuk took us to Malibu Beach, which was a much nicer beach than the one at our resort, lovely sand and plenty to look at! Tuk really doesn't like the Thai sex trade and then we left. Next stop Koh Ma. This place was a small island in the north with a sand spit joining it to the main island. The snorkelling there was unbelievable, better than our diving!! Definately going to go back there just for the snorkelling! I almost got lost before we left for the Amsterdam Bar, last stop on the tour. We watched the sunset
in the bar on top of the mountain with a cold beer and some good company. We were back to the resort for dinner with Debs and the gang, watched Babel?! and crashed out after an awesome day. It was the full moon tomorrow so we needed some rest!!The day of the full moon started with Zohan, followed by Cast Away Day, dreamed up by Adrian and Debs the night before, which involved reinacting scences from the Tom Hanks Movie that I haven't seen. Despite this I basically was the only one trying and definately won with my floating victim, seaweed hair piece and beard, drinking water from a leaf and the hour spent trying to create fire with crap from the beach! I also got my chance to practise writting love letters as Tuk wanted me to write one for him for some gorgeous blonde girl on the beach! Much to Deb's disappointment it didn't read 'I love the way your eyelashes flutter in the morning breeze'!? Instead it was very simple and was all about the rose he gave her! We started to watch Transformers before going to the 7 11 for booze. We aquired some more samsung, dirt cheap vodka, mental thai red bull and some liquid foreplay!? The girls and chris had no where to stay so we said they could stay in our small room!? and so we went back there for some rounds of I have Never and some drinking. Before long we went to the beach bar for some more drinks aiming to be fashionably late to the party. We got some body paint and for some reason I got my face totally covered as a skull face!! I don't think we were sposed to have this paint on our skin! It burnt like the fires from hell!! 
Once we were suitably decorated and battered we left for Haad Rin where the Full Moon Party is held. We sang mad songs all the way, like the old classic disney, some Queen and maybe even some Abba!? Debs saved me from getting my head caved in, in a thai boxing ring (still need to do that!) and we went for a few brews in the Warm Up Bar. Then we hit the beach and the buckets hard! It was rammed there were so many people, madness! It didn't take long to get seperated and we both have different stories of that night, thats for sure! I danced like a loon on a podium with Debbie Cockring before getting lost in a building site and trying to get a boat to Bangkok!? Amazingly we were reunited at about 6am around a comatose Paul! We stayed to watch the sun rise and looked back on a mental nights partying before catching a ridiculously expensive taxi back to the resort where we discovered Chris 'dead' on the porch! We all got into bed and tried to convince Chris he wasn't the last back and that we weren't ass holes before catching a few z's and having to check out in 2 hours!!
It didn't take much persuading for us to sack of the boat trip the morning after in favour of a chilled out day and a free bed in the gangs room. We developed a game called Splashy Splashy, watched our last sunset in Koh Phangan and managed to make it all the way through Apocalypto!
The next day we all checked out together and made our way to the boat dock to catch a boat to Suttarani and then a bus to Krabi, we were now a little crew but I think they were just following me and Adrian (the cool kids). At the port the queue was totally ridiculous, much like most of Thailands organisation it resembled the digestive track of a person after a few too many dried apricots and a bottle of Epicack, with the occasional movement of people squeezing through the proverbial svinkter when the name of there destination is called. In true Thai style they squeezed us onto our overloaded boat where there were no seats and we were off. I managed to get a seat while Adrian made a bed from lifejackets which may have been very useful considering how regularly the boat engine was malfunctioning!
It didn't take much persuading for us to sack of the boat trip the morning after in favour of a chilled out day and a free bed in the gangs room. We developed a game called Splashy Splashy, watched our last sunset in Koh Phangan and managed to make it all the way through Apocalypto!
The next day we all checked out together and made our way to the boat dock to catch a boat to Suttarani and then a bus to Krabi, we were now a little crew but I think they were just following me and Adrian (the cool kids). At the port the queue was totally ridiculous, much like most of Thailands organisation it resembled the digestive track of a person after a few too many dried apricots and a bottle of Epicack, with the occasional movement of people squeezing through the proverbial svinkter when the name of there destination is called. In true Thai style they squeezed us onto our overloaded boat where there were no seats and we were off. I managed to get a seat while Adrian made a bed from lifejackets which may have been very useful considering how regularly the boat engine was malfunctioning!
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