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.

We are in Pattaya at the moment, original plan to head up to Chiang Mai changed when we discovered the trains are still not runniung because of the floods and didn't quite feel up to a 12hr bus journey so soon after a 10hr flight.

Just to say a bit more about Kanchanaburi as our last post was very brief .. it was beautiful there. Very green and not as built up as places like here in Pattaya and in Bangkok. We visited Kanchanaburi War Cemetry where hundres of WW2 POW's are buried, the cemetry is really peaceful and well looked after. We also visted the Death Railway museum. It was interestingly .. tacky? There is a small part of the original railway that the POW's built you can see and not much else. Its not very well looked after. We then attempted to walk along the "Bridge over the River Kwai" but that didnt last long, too many Korean Tourists, nothing to hold on to and the structure is full of big gaps? .. and I don't like heights.

I'm not sure there are such things as health and safety laws in Thailand, there is no one to control how many people are on the bridge and when a train comes you just have to find somewhere to get out to way. Anyhow, we also went bamboo rafting, elephant trekking (which was an experience indeed, especially for Barrie) and to see a waterfall.

I'm having trouble uploading photos so here are a few .. if it works.

We leave Pattaya tomorrow for Koh Chang. It's nice here but 4 days is quite enough.

The title of our entry comes from our hotel door breaking on more than one occasion and the severe 1st degree (joke) burns we have got. All fun though!

Check out us babes. Haw haw.

We are here! On Khao San road at the moment, just had dinner and a yummy banana pancake for pud. Visited Kanachanaburi today, saw the Death Railway, went bamboo rafting on the River Kwai, visited a waterfall and such. Was all good fun and I have taken lots of photos, will upload when I can.

We're hoping to leave for Chiang Mai tomorrow night, Bangkok isn't somewhere you'd want to stay longer than a couple days, or so we think.

Not much to write about at the moment as we've only been here 2 days. Will update when we can. x