Phuket

So, here we are in Phuket!! Yipee we escaped smog city!! We have bith bought hand made silk oriental style dresses - they are wonderful, we are going to keep them with us until we go to Raffles in Singapore then have them shipped home, probably with a load of other useless stuff we will accumulate!!

So, there was a mini Monsoon in Bangkok yesterday when we checked out of the KSR, got mighty wet - the puddles were about 2 inches deep!!

Then we took the 12 hour bus ride to Phuket ..... 12 hours turned to 13, which turned to 14 etc etc etc - it ended up taking 18, yes 18 hours to get here!! We went on buses, bizarre people carrier thing where you sit on a bench and hold onto rails for sfety - nice!!

The shed, ahem, hotel ?? we are staying in is horrible and I can't wait to move to another one - we are on florr 5 with no lift, the bed is harded than sleeping on the grass and I don't get the idea of the "wet room" as apposed to having a shower curtain!! Oh and the rain has followed us....

We have just been down to the beach in Patang where the tsunami hit, there is still a bit of damage and all the palm trees have their roots showing - it's difficult to imagine such a terrible thing happening in such a beautiful country.

That's all for now folks - speak to you all soon

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