Apologies once again for the large break between blogs! Once we headed off to Phi Phi island the iternet access has been somewhat sporadic ... combination of broken computers and and the frequency of the power cuts! Nothing quite like having to take a torch with you at night so you can find your way back along the beach to your rooms ... somehow we struggled through though!!
Phi Phi was gorgeous although obviously still recovering from the Tsunami in Dec 2004 ... lots of coral still washing up on the beaches each day and trees ripped in half near to the shore. It is still a stunning place though and the electric storms that you get with the almost nightly storms (hence the power being knocked out frequently) are v. impressive. Did think that we weren't going to make it onto the island at one point as we had to transfer from the ferry onto little wooden longtail boats and then scramble through the water onto the beach as the water was too shallow ... Dom was not impressed at all to start off with that he had to wear his shoes around his neck and roll his shorts up to wade onto the beach. Luckily within 24 hours he had found the whole process funny!! Just as well considering the process the other way was certainly trickier having to climb from the little boat being buffeted around in the sea on to the ferry ... all good fun though!
After Phi Phi we had a comedy experience at Nai Yang Beach which is within a nature reserve ... the beach was stunning and we had the most amazing food ... but the whole area behing the beach (including by our hut) was a building site, so we left early and went to Bang Tao beach having picked up a cheeky deal on expedia. It was gorgeous and we enjoyed our last few days in Thailand there.
Right ... we are just off to jump on the plane to Singapore now so will blog in the next few days (fingers crossed!!)
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Finally ... a beach!
Right then, its been a busy week for us so apologies for the lack of updates.
We are now in Phuket (specifically Karon / Kata Beach area) and looking forward to nothing more than lying on the beach, swimming in the sea and getting a Thai massage right there on the beach!
We have been from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where we met up with Tamsin and developed our overseas hangover skills! No great surprise there. We did also do some proper tourist sight seeing and took a few (hundred!) pictures of Hong Kong by day & night. The views from Kowloon over to Hong Kong island at night are stunning; as is the view from the Peak on Hong Kong island itself.
From Hong Kong we moved on to Bangkok (waving Tamsin off to meet up with Claire and Nick, and continue their tour back into China) - where we spent four days getting hot, smelly and bugged by people trying to scam us! We also zoomed around in a tuk-tuk and saw some fantastic temples, statues and the Grand Palace - plus we were lucky enough to witness an annual parade featuring fighting dragons, banging drums, tumbling acrobats, superb costumes and a lot of flippin' loud fire crackers. [I have some video footage which I will upload to YouTube when I can and link to from here - Dom]
We have taken literarly hundreds of photos, but are not yet in a position to upload them to Flikr -- as soon as we get a chance they will be uploaded and linked from here.
Right, time for a few drinkies so signing off now. Greetings to all from sunny Phuket!!
We are now in Phuket (specifically Karon / Kata Beach area) and looking forward to nothing more than lying on the beach, swimming in the sea and getting a Thai massage right there on the beach!
We have been from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where we met up with Tamsin and developed our overseas hangover skills! No great surprise there. We did also do some proper tourist sight seeing and took a few (hundred!) pictures of Hong Kong by day & night. The views from Kowloon over to Hong Kong island at night are stunning; as is the view from the Peak on Hong Kong island itself.
From Hong Kong we moved on to Bangkok (waving Tamsin off to meet up with Claire and Nick, and continue their tour back into China) - where we spent four days getting hot, smelly and bugged by people trying to scam us! We also zoomed around in a tuk-tuk and saw some fantastic temples, statues and the Grand Palace - plus we were lucky enough to witness an annual parade featuring fighting dragons, banging drums, tumbling acrobats, superb costumes and a lot of flippin' loud fire crackers. [I have some video footage which I will upload to YouTube when I can and link to from here - Dom]
We have taken literarly hundreds of photos, but are not yet in a position to upload them to Flikr -- as soon as we get a chance they will be uploaded and linked from here.
Right, time for a few drinkies so signing off now. Greetings to all from sunny Phuket!!
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Konichiwa Tokyo!
The first stop on our world tour -- Tokyo. This picture is one of many shots taken over four days in the Japanese capital ... it's a cityscape shot from our hotel window on the first of our three nights there.
It really is a fab place and I think that some of my (A) favourite memories will be:
1) the completely space age toilet seats where you could get them to deoderise / bidet / play the flush at different sound levels / warm up and more ... brazilliant!
2) The number of women wearing kimonos in every day life
3) The traffic police who had light sabres ... spent a long time trying to get photos of them at night without getting arrested in the process
I never thought that I would be eating conga eel twice in one day ... nette you would be proud of me!!
It really is a fab place and I think that some of my (A) favourite memories will be:
1) the completely space age toilet seats where you could get them to deoderise / bidet / play the flush at different sound levels / warm up and more ... brazilliant!
2) The number of women wearing kimonos in every day life
3) The traffic police who had light sabres ... spent a long time trying to get photos of them at night without getting arrested in the process
I never thought that I would be eating conga eel twice in one day ... nette you would be proud of me!!
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