A brief email from a beautiful secluded beach on Thailand wishing you all a very merry christmas and happy new year.
It's very very strange being away from home for Christmas - first time ever. It's made odder but also easier by Christmas not being made a massive thing here and it being scorchingly hot. I've met up with an old SAC colleague and two of her friends for the next week, so it's nice not being alone for the 'festive' season. I treated myself to peanut butter and marmite on toast for breakfast (I knew it was worthwhile bringing the marmite all the way from home with me) and bought myself some stocking fillers for the rest of the day (chocolate money, chocolate, an apple, chocolate, and sweets. Oh, and chocolate). This evening, our guesthouse is putting on a big christmas buffet of seafood, salads and other delicious food, which will be really nice.
Thailand's one hell of a culture shock after Laos. So many tourists, so western. It's very strange... The 48 hour journey down here was interesting. I thought I'd got away from buses full of puking people when I left Laos - the roads are so winding there and the locals don't go on buses very often - until I got on the catamaran to Koh Pha Ngan. My god, almost half of them were doing some spectacular hurling and it was incredible to watch the ripple effect as the chunder got passed around the boat. Hee hee...
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