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I arrived in bangkok on the 3 of feb 2007 and i would like to point out thats it is *** scary when you have just jumped of a 12 hour flight to find a million people hassling you for taxi rides and bus journys, but after adjusting your self in around 10 mins you release that this is just the norm for this type of place. The journey inro bangkok was great, kind of sust out the buses on the net before i left as i knew i could get a bus for 150 baht rather than paying the 1500 baht taxi fee. I arrived on Khao san road, which is a mecca for backpackers as its got everything you need, the main thing is a very large beer. I headed out alone but was soon to find myself getting really pissed on a cocktail called mai thai, got its got a kick, i only know its that bad becasue i woke up 12 hours later to find myself still pissed. The next night i moved on to the patpong area of bangkok which i was pleased to find out house the famous ping pong shows. Every bar has the same shows but with different girls. The one thing i found i little funny was the fact that every girl firing a banna, dart, ping pong out of her fanny was a little bit porky or should i say fat, but thats ok because there is normally a really beautiful girl sitting next to you while you watch it. Don't get pulled in tho boys as the girls are there to make money and not to find love, just be pleasant and dont buy them drinks and you'll be fine. I also made a trip to the amazing home of the thai massage in a place called wat pho. They give you an hours massage with herbs for 480 bart and yes it really was worth it. Don't expect soothing because they crack every bone in your body, but its a experience and thats what life is about. I also payed a vist to the royal palace and this is where you can view the emreld budda and this is also a must on a trip to the capital. Unfortunately i like a good time and seeing it was my first week i sent most of my time and money drinking and getting wrecked on the famous central bar or gullivers night club. Oh another club woth a vist is the spicy club which is about ten minutes from the khao san and you can get there for 40 baht in a tuk tuk. Tuk tuk are another story but they are cheap and money matters when your on a years holiday. I'm now in a place called ko chang which is an tropical island in the gulf of thailand, but i'll tell you about it next week.

Slinky

ok so we woke up a little early this morning, we (eve, alec and i) had it in our heads that rainbow was hours away, so we woke up really early (7am) to get on the road as they needed to be there by 4pm for their briefing at dingos hostel. We were wrong. I got talking to the owner of the hostel whilst we were trying to jump start this backpackers car in the car park and he told me it was only 2 hours away...so then we had breakfast, well i had breakfast like a german, there was cheese, toast, jam, cereal, lamington cake, tea, coffee, mango, pineapple, apples......i didn't need to eat again until 4:30 that evening.

 I let Alec drive some of the way to rainbow. He drives like a granny. Oh my god. 

So we arrive at the dingos hostel, its lovely. There is $4 dinner on tonight, spaghetti bolognese and salad. Its a great idea because not only does it feed us, but we all congregate to eat dinner, therefore meeting people. This hostel does self drive tours on fraser so its a really good way to get to know your group before you go. The bar is good, they do killer pool competitions etc.

 I met some Irish guys who were hilarious, they were complaining about three asians who had arrived on their fraser tour and had only brought 6 bottles of toohey's between the three of them!!!!! disaster!

The beach in rainbow beach is lovely. The water is crystal clear with some wicked waves!!!

welcome to the town of beautiful people, most of them hippy wannabe's....ouch!

ok its day 2 of the excursion....i'm gettin quite used to my own company....

so if you've never been to the art factory....its very hippyish, its quite cool actually...its got a lake with big permanent teepee's around it, a campsite and the dorms in the main building. its full of beautiful people, sporting new dreads, fishermans pants which they bought in thailand on the way over and basically a lot of hippy wannabes. is that cruel to say??? basically, i was in the kitchen half an hour ago and over heard an american girl frying her organic eggs complaining that there wasn't a starbucks in this town....hmmm.

so i'm camping here...the kitchen is minging. ants everywhere and possums too. the actual campsite is quite nice. everything was lovely until i spotted two rats creeping outside the door of my tent the night before last. i ran to the kitchen and i saw a girl and just said " there are rats outside my tent" and her reply before walking off was "welcome to australia"....ehmmm we've rats in ireland too love, but thanks for your help anyways. so i ended up getting a boy to throw things at my tent to scare them away until i got in.

another thing i have noticed...people aren't very welcoming at all here. everyone tends to hang around in large groups around tables and i am generally very outgoing, and i will talk to anyone. maybe its because i'm not bronzed with dreadlocks i dunno.....