Just chillin'

After spending two days in Kuala Lumpur and three days to Georgetown (on the island of Penang), we have finally reached Thailand and found Paradise!

It took a long bus journey (13 hours) but we arrived in Koh Lanta, an island on the South West of Thailand, on Wednesday. It is beautiful and remote (you need to take two ferries to get to it), and although it is touristy with quite a few resorts along the coast, it is not busy at all. Quite a contrast with our week in Malaysia.

We are staying in a little beach hut that costs almost nothing, and days consist of swimming in the transparent/warm sea (30 degrees C today), reading, playing ball on the beach, sleeping, drinking and eating nice Thai food. Yes I know, we've got it hard!

Today we went out diving, it was great fun. Gary did two dives and I mostly snorkelled, but also did an introductory 10 minutes dive. It was brilliant - we got to see plenty of fish and corals (I even saw a barracuda on my dive!). The only hard bit was that the sea was pretty rough and we both felt very sea sick (although the diving instructor, who says he's never been sea sick in his life, wasn't feeling too perky either. So we're not such lihtweights after all!). I had no idea this could be so knackering, though. We could harly talk when we got back, for wanting to just crash and have a siesta.

So all in all it's really great, I had always dreamt of coming to Thailand and I am not disappointed. I think we will stay here for a while!

There is no apparent USB port on the computer I am using now sostill haven't uploaded any pics from Malaysia/Thailand but will do as soon as I can.

C.