Ko Phangan Stories


Island holiday in Thailand

This is a note about 2 weeks spent on islands in Thailand: the first on Koh Phi Phi, the second on Koh Phangan. On Phi Phi we stayed at a fancy resort, paying about $50 per night and staying in real luxury. Some friends of ours were there as well so we had the fun of being in a posse for trips, meals and cocktails. Beautiful water, good snorkelling ...


Lady Boys on the Prowl

Still in Koh Phangan, and it's actually really cool to see how the island empties out when there's no full moon party. Right now, it's pretty laid back, and for the land of excess, that's something I didn't expect. Anyway, I met a Canadian guy named Jesse and we were giving my English friends language lessons. Pronunciation mostly. Why do they say ...


We love Ko Phangan

Lots has happened since the last update, but I'll start where we finished off on Saturday... Saturday We took Taz out for a lovely meal, we wandered about looking for the best seafood selection we could find and settled on a mixed plate which included a fish fillet, huge prawns, a blue crab, a whole squid etc... Al served up from the BBQ with a big ...


Full Moon Party... Volume 3 and Swine Flu

Personally, I think it's hilarious how much things have changed in the past few days since I wrote that last one. I went from hanging out with an American, to having to take off from him because he had to go to the hospital. The guy was running a fever when he landed from Japan, and it didn't go away so they thought he had swine flu and was quaranteen...