Back to Bangkok

Back to Bangkok
G’day team well I’m back in Bangkok again and struth ruth has it been a massive few weeks. Thanks to everybody’s support again I bounced back and actually had an awesome time down in the South of Thailand. In Patong, Phuket I met some awesome guys who I traveled with for the past week. They are Matt from the USA and Tom from England and all of us are traveling along and hit it off really well and have partied every night away since we met. I think Patong is the only place you can walk down the street and be molested by 20 hot Thai girls when your just trying to mind your own business. Even guys with girlfriends walking down the street are groped by these model like Thai girls right in front of their girlfriends. They also have these she men called "Lady Boys" (see picture) everywhere in Thailand and you would not believe how much they look like women. Most get hormone replacement when are little kids and it is almost impossible to tell what sex they are until you hear them talk. On our last day in Patong we hired so surfboards and took to monsoonal surf. It was good fun to get back out in the ocean apart from all the Tsunami debris floating in the water. At one stage I duck dived under a wave and got a bag wrapped around my face. When I saw clothes floating in the water I dry reached then spewed up into the water it was gross. Patong was the craziest place any of us have seen and we all had withdrawal symptoms when leaving it for Phi Phi Island. We got a real bargain of a deal to get to Phi Phi Island which was much cheaper than catching a ferry and included a free day tour, snorkeling, and Thai meal for lunch. Our travel agent ended up being a lady boy too and when we stood up to leave she bend over the desk and groped us all. We just pissed up laughing because where in the world would you see that happened, what a shock. We had so much fun snorkeling on our tour of Phi Phi that I nearly drowned, I was laughing so much at Tom having coral fights with fish. Phi Phi Island was definitely one of a kind. The water was the nicest, lightest, and clear electric blue I’ve seen and with its white sand and 360 degree mountain views it was just something you have to see. The island was completely destroyed by the Tsunami 2 years ago and is still being rebuilt. Some locals had signs out the front of their stalls thanking people for saving them and pulling them out of rubble and the Tsunami. They were all so thankful to still be alive and had the biggest smiles on their face you could ever see. Our first day on Phi Phi was absolutely bucketing down with rain and it took a lot of courage to venture out to explore the island. The island is full of little milkshake and hamburger stalls in a maze of little alley ways. The cool thing about this island is that there is not one car or motorbike. You see the occasional bicycle riders swerving to miss you but that’s about it. At night the island comes alive and the Thailand party continues. There are a few bars on the island and they are all really good. Almost everywhere you go there is fire dancing and after a few drinks it is extremely impressive. For about 5 bucks you can buy a bucket of whiskey, red bull, and coke mixed together with about 20 straws in it. Both nights we were there we partied the night away until the sun came up and just chilled out on the beach. There weather is really funny over here, as it’s the wet season it pours down with rain for about half an hour then stops and 30 mins later it’s hot and dry again until the next day. On the ferry back from Phi Phi I met this really nice gorgeous Thai girl and we talked for ages, it would be way to easy to fall in love over here as the girls are so pretty, nice, smiley, down to earth, and have the best personalities you can imagine (perfect). We took an overnight bus from Krabi to Bangkok last night and it was the second bus in a row we’ve caught that’s broken down. Lucky it started again and we finally arrived on time. The cab drivers try so hard to rip you off over here, it’s bloody hard work getting from A to B without getting ripped off. This morning I went to catch a cab and when I arrived at my destination the cab driver was saying he didn’t have the correct change so wanted to round it up. Lucky for me with my Aussie cheap vision I saw he was hiding the correct change in his other had. I said to him "that’s bull twang ya mongrel I just saw it in your other hand" he nearly fainted and tried to push me over. I got my money back but was so close to clocking him one in the process. Anyway I’m here in Bangkok for 2 days then I’m going to pop up to Chang Mai for some hiking during the week then flying back to Adelaide next Saturday. Thanks again for all my emails everyone it’s so great of you, and sorry if I haven’t got around to writing back I would if I had the time and money but again I really appreciate it.
C ya round like a lady boys hormone tablet,
Pauly

Fulla Beans Mate!!!

G'day you bloody legends,
Well I'm feeling heaps better than I was last time I updated you. Everyone has been so awesome supporting me through this and I really appreciate it guys. Sorry to everyone that has sent me emails and I haven't responded, the internet is too expensive over here so I just have to rush every time I'm on it but I'm totally overwhelmed by everyone being so supportive. Well I'm currently in Phuket in a awesome party town called Patong and having a ball here. The tsunami of 2004 really smashed this town up bad but it's pretty much rebuilt now and mate is it sweet fun here. You can shop to you till you drop here party all night and everything is so cheap and the people are so nice it's almost weird. Today I had a good old chin wag with some of the locals about the tsunami and I ended up getting a tour of all the effected areas. It was so interesting and I saw parts of the island today that almost looked untouched to how it was when just happened. There were smashed up houses and debris everywhere but the people were so happy and it kind of inspired me to get over any of my problems and keep my head up. I switched on the telly this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see the Crows game live. I was so happy about that that even though we lost I didn't care. I also got an Amarni suit custom made for me today so now I can look rich even though I'm so povo at the moment. On Tuesday I'm going to whip over to Pi Phi island (where the movie "the beach" was filmed) for a couple of days. Apparently it is just absolute paradise over there and not 1 car on the island. Well that's about it for now old son. Thanks again to everyone out there who helped me so much this week, I really don't know how I would have managed without all the support I've got. Even the travelers over here have taken me under their wing and I've been hanging out with some great people. The other night I met some really nice Irish chicks and I ended up crashing at there hotel room with them. We told ghost stories all night and right at the height of our story telling the power went out and everyone screamed it was bonza fun.
Talk to ya soon ya galahs
Pauly Wauly