Phuket.... Awesome.

Kuala Lumpur was something, Phuket is something else
We landed in the late afternoon, the weather was beautiful, not as humid as Kuala Lumpur, but still around about 30-32 degrees. We made our way through the Thai immigration, and onto a taxi.
The drive to Patong Beach was unbelievable. I thought the traffic was intense in Kuala Lumpur, and the people on scooters were all insane, but in Phuket, no one wears helmets, they ride with as many as four people on one scooter, they carry large televisions around with them while they’re riding, they even drive on the wrong side of the road to get to where they’re going.
There is absolutely no way you would get me on a scooter, riding the streets of Phuket.
We made it to our hotel, which we are very impressed with, it is clean, we have a television and a fridge a bathroom, everything we really need. I think that we have done really well for ourselves.
We wandered about last night for a bit until we found a place to eat, a really nice restaurant down the quite end of one of the main streets. We flicked through the menu and all of the mains were around 100-120 baht, which is around about $4.00 dollars.
attention quickly turned to the beverage menu and we had a handful of beers and a handful of cocktails at incredibly low prices, I was shocked. After we fixed the bill, we wandered back up the street, found a bar which was showing the A.F.L., in which Geelong got beaten, again ……
Watched the start, left to head back to the hotel when I bumped into a mate Ali, who I played football against while I was a junior at Happy Valley. He and his girlfriend Sophie also had just flown in and were stopping off in Phuket and were heading over to Koh Samui in a few days to go to the Full moon party, which Jarrad and I will be attending.
It is amazing how small the world is, but I wasn’t surprised that I ran into someone I knew, as I think there are more Australian here then the native Thais.
Which brings me to all of the people who work down the streets, whether as someone who works in a shop, someone giving massages or taxi drivers. They’re incredible, Jarrad and I was down the street and we are heckled constantly to buy, eat or do something.
The girls from the countless massage parlours will whistle at you, tell you how handsome you are, grab your hand, spank you etc, just to grab your attention. It’s really tiring walking from one end of the street to the other because you’re constantly dodging people’s approaches from the shops.
Anyways, Ali, Sophie, Jarrad and I wandered back to a bar called Shakers, and jumped on the Long Island Iced Teas, it was safe to say the rest of the night got very hazy and we all woke up with cracking headaches.
The food here though, is amazing, its cheap and delicious, and you can find nearly any type of food you want within walking distance of the Hotel, we have a Thai, and Indian, a Italian and a Nepalese restaurant just outside the front door, and plenty of others just around the corner. Today’s lunch consists of a Thai Green Curry and a Chicken and Veg dish with rice. Delicious.
Ill leave it at that for today,
So long.