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A few days on Koh Lanta – beach time!
We got hooked up with a another tout on the boat, who offered us a free lift to her family run resort, to take a look at their rooms, with no obligation. It tuned out well again, with the room costing 400b/night (fan) and very well appointed. Lanta Nature Beach Resort grew on me, at…
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Phi Phi and beyond
So Phi Phi turned out nicely, we ended up spending two nights there on the little beach that was very quiet. On one of the days, we decided to take a hike over the island to Tonsai beach and via the picture postcard viewpoint. Interestingly they we’re selling DVDs of photos from he Tsunami that…
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Bliss on Ko Phi Phi? Let’s hope so
There was a tout on the boat, who seemed a little slimy, but was nice enough and promised to find us cheap accommodation. We humoured him and ended up booking for two nights at the Bantan Bay Bungalows (500b/night) again expensive, but better than many of the prices quoted in the LP, and on a…
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Ayathuya, wat wat
On our second day in Ayathuya we rented bikes and cycled off to visit some of the many wats in the area. This was the seat of power for a while back in the day, and as such has lots of old crumbly ruins. We had a good poke around a few and I…
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From Rainy Dublin to Rainy Bangkok
So it turns out, it flipping rains in Asia… trust us to turn up at the end of rainy season. Imagine our worry when we landed into Bangkok Airport after a 16 hour journey from grey Dublin, to an even greyer, over-cast and torrentially raining Bangkok! However, as we discovered to our en-pinkened delight, it’s…
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Leaving for Thailand
The first leg of our trip – Jefferson house to Dublin airport. With the help of Olga an Teresa we have finally emptied Belmont apartment of all of our stuff! We said out goodbyes to John Mark and Bronagh, who are going on their own separate adventures 🙂 we’ll miss them!!
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the last weekend with the Belmonters
today was lovely, we went swimming in the 40foot with really big waves. Before that Bronagh made a really scrumptious breakfast, that thankfully wasn’t burnt. then this evening I made a lovely dinner that made everyone go into a food coma.. I am going to really really miss my wonderful flatmates. I don’t know where…
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Moving out, going to Asia
So, we finally got organised. We booked flights to Thailand, and are moving out of our apartment, we’ll be back in November!