Beaches, buckets and bikinis

Island life... that is what I am living.. .and it is wonderful. Days spent lying in the sun or swimming in the sea, nights spent at the bars meeting people from all over the world. Life is good.

We are on an island called Koh Chang. We spent the first 3 days at a really fancy resort on Lonely Beach. The water was a beautiful aqua-marine colour, with a white sandy beach. Our resort was lovely. Walking along the beach you can stop for a massage anytime (which I did) and indulge in a manicure or pedicure (yet to do, but surely going to happen). The bathing suit collection is constantly growing as every store is selling them for cheap - and who wants to be seen in the same bathing suit twice? As our resort was so fancy we went to the backpackers area in the evenings and met a ton of people. England, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, United States... the whole world is represented over here. People are drinking "Samsung bucets" which are sand pails filled with a bottle of Thai Whiskey, Red Bull, and Coke... extremely strong, extremely cheap, and a little much for me. My new favourite is a coconut shake (served in the coconut) with a touch of Baileys. Trying not to indulge too much, but it looks too good to pass up.

We have now moved on to White Sand Beach. Life is basically the same but the town itself is a bit more built up, with more shops, more restaurants, more bars. We found a fantastic vegetarian menu the other night. The restaurant was lovely, but cats and dogs seemed to like to hang around there and they don't seem to be all that toilet trained. Needless to say, although the food was great, we won't be going back.

There are some amazing fire shows on the beach - basically people dancing with fire sticks. They are amazing to watch... and quite funny. Hair catching on fire, shirts catching on fire... but at least the sea is close by.

Anyway, I could go on and on, and perhaps I will with another post. And when I get back to Bangkok, I promise to post some pictures as I have finally been making good use of my camera.

Must get back to the beach...