Disco' in the Far East

To start off, the title of this entry was inspired by a certain incident including Barrie and our automatic "moterbike" as the Thais like to spell it, which we shall go into more detail about a bit later on in this entry.

We arrived on Koh Chang on the 7th and stayed 4 nights, I already wish we had stayed longer. It was absolutely beautiful and when we get the chance I will definately upload photos. The views were fabulous, no matter how many times you looked out of your bungalow window, or over the edge of the hilltop roads, it was never boring.

Koh Chang means island of elephant, and whilst we probably should have gone on an elephant trek being as that is what the island is named after, we instead spent every day lounging by the pool and beach and going on drives up and down the hilly island, stopping to buy a bottle of 30bht gasoline every now and then, and eating good Thai food.

The moped riding was an experience in itself. Some of the hills it climbed with us two on it, well its a wonder how it made it up them. All I could do was laugh. I think it was a combination of sheer fright and a mad rush of adrenaline as we reached the top of the hills and went rushing down. And of course I pulled off the the sexy helment look, haw haw.

Barrie's kangarooing incident with the moped almost took him on a non-stop tour of a few of the local shops, much to the locals amusement, and of course mine too. In fact, I'm laughing as I type this. Barrie however, is keen to add that I also had a kanagrooing incident with the moped, on trying to drive it I almost crashed in to a cliff. The little Thai lady who rents out the bikes, laughed somewhat sympathetically at me, but also as if to say almost every 'farang' I see does that. And then proceeded to talk Thai at me and do all sorts of hand motions. Needless to say, I never tried riding the thing again. Captain Barrie was left in charge, as I provided the ultimate cruising song .."driving down the road, tryin' loosen my load, I got seven women on my mind".

Now we are back on Khao San Road, and leave tomorrow evening for Phuket. We plan to stay there one night and then head to Koh Phi Phi for a couple nights.

For now, safe driving peoples.