Firstly, we just want to say thanks to all the people who have contacted us out of concern or impatience because we haven’t updated the site for so long. It’s nice to know that some people actually read this! :-) Basically we have just been being lazy, or having fun, or spending time at the beach, rather than on the internet.
The past month we have been living in a little house on Koh Lanta, in south western Thailand. It has been heavenly! We have a huge room, all the mod cons such as a fridge, kettle, (Yay!! Cups of tea and coffee in our own room, without having to go out! The only other place we can do that is Luang Namtha.) cable TV, (with 3 movie channels! OMG, it’s been 10 months since we’ve watched TV!), air con and a huge balcony overlooking heaps of trees including palm trees. There are lots of birds and squirrels always in the trees so it’s quite entertaining to sit on the balcony for hours. We are also a few minutes walk to the beach, (about 30 seconds on our motorbike) and our French friends Ben and Fafa live just across the road and we have spent a lot of time with them.
A typical day pretty much consists of: get up and go for a run on the beach and then a swim, come home, Dre take scooter to fruit and food stall – Thai’s laugh at Dre for eating like a local, have the nicest mango and pineapple in the world for breakfast (seriously!) plus other fruits, sit on the balcony/read for a while, go to the gym at the resort across the road, go for a swim at the resort, laze by the pool at the resort, have lunch, visit Ben and Fafa for some out of this world homemade icecream/sorbet/talking/chilling, watch sunset and swim again, have a lazy evening at one of our favourite restaurants, watch a movie. So, very domesticated!
We have visited the annual Lanta festival, been to many deserted beaches, and went to the most fun party of our lives (even better than Shapeshifter!!) hosted by DJ Fafa, we danced for about 8 hours and then showed our age the next day by pretty much not being able to do anything other than eat, sleep and swim.
We are starting to appreciate why many regions in south-east Asia so many people celebrate the coming of the rainy season, April is meant to be the hottest month and the past week has been SO hot. High 30’s every day and then the past few days this has been broken by rain for an hour or so in the late afternoon which is such a welcome relief. It has made for some amazing sunsets and is awesome because it cools everything down for the evening and night. Tomorrow we are off to Malaysia again because our 1 month visa is up already! Our photos are here.
