Last time I wrote, we were in Thailand. Turns out Asia is soooo last week so we have moved on to Australia. I'll just sum up the rest of Thailand and get cracking on Oz...
We spent most of the rest of our time in Thailand in Koh Samui. Apart from numerous sunbathing hours, we booked a half day adventure trip thing which went as follows...
Got pickled up in our favourite truck taxi and went to pick up some others. Only bloody Germans weren't they!? Had to fight the urge to shout various choice Deutsch phrases that I know. Headed to an elephant trekking place first. Don't know if you know but elephants are HUGE! We let zee Germans go first so that if the elephants fancied eating someone it would be them. We named our elephant James. I asked our guide if James was a famous elephant because it seemed as if james was shying away from a previously glitzy showbiz lifestyle. I suggested that he might have been the real Dumbo from the film. Our guide didn't know, pretty useless as a guide really. Riding an elephant is quite frankly terrifying and a very bumpy ride. We kept thinking we were going to fall off. The best part of the trek was when our elephant overtook the German's elephant. I think it was James' idea of a reminder to the Germans that England won the war. I could be wrong. A and I obviously flashed the V's as we rode victoriously past on showbiz James! Got back and fed james some bananas as a prize for thwarting zee Deutsch in an attempt to start an elephant based WW3. Next we headed to a Thai cooking course where we learnt how to make a yellow curry which was so spicy I couldn't finish it! Thai's have no respect for my delecate palate. The Germans were really rude and nearly shit themselves with laughter when it was suggested they didn't know what garlic was. We then saw a trained monkey picking cocnuts from a tree and learnt how to make cocnut milk. Essentially you squeeze coconut but with the language barrier it took about 15 mins to explain. Next stop was a waterfall whic was really nice. Germans complained it wasn't high enough. I learnt a lot about Thai culture that day, I also learnt not to go to Germany.
On the last day in Thailand we went back to Bangkok and spent our remaining Baht on Khao San road. Again refused the ping pong show but enjoyed the promoter's desperate attempts to get people to go by making sound effects.
Australia
Managed to blag an upgrade for our transfer from Sydney to Cairns! I think it was our dirty clothes and dazed 'I've been awake all night' looks that gave away our vast business acumen which led to the upgrade. There was a rugby team on our flight to Cairns (hello!) and we realized we were possibly put in business class to keep us away from them. Got to Cairns and dumped our stuff in the hostel and went for a wonder. Cairns is a nice place but a little weird, bit like a ghost town with no one about really. Strange mix of shops too, Louis Vuitton next to some crap tourist shop. Headed back and did the pub quiz with some guys and girls we met earlier. Didn't win. Nightmare.
Headed tot he lagoon which is a massive open air swimming pool which overlooks the sea. there are massive BBQ areas which fire up twice a day for anyone to use. We said if those were in England they would be vandalized within seconds. Take note English nation! Cairns was full of Chinese people today. Now I don't wanna sound racist or anything (I know I went to town on zee Deutsch, above) but they're just weird. They do everything in large groups, i.e. shopping, walking moving. I said excuse me to a group who were apparently so tight knit that some of them were actually holding hands, and they didn't just part like the red sea, they moved to one side and made me go round them, they were like a school of fish! Next week on "Lucy's racist rant", the Polish! I jest.
Booked a day trip to go sailing to green island. Early start, headed straight to the marina, felt very "Ralph Lauren photoshoot". Took about 2 hours to get there and I got a tiny bit sea sick. The crew were really nice and it didn't hurt that the scuba instructor was HOT! We snorkelled on the reef for about 2 hours which was great, we found Nemo which I think was a relief to everyone. At lunch time 'scuba Rob' threw some chicken in the sea and a load of sharks turned up! I threw half my lunch in the sea in all the excitement! Jumped on a speed boat to green island and spent a few hours on the beach. The wind was good or something, so we put the sails up on the way back and sailed which was fun. Had dinner with people from the hostel then ended up in a bar called the Woolshed which was loads of fun.
Magnetic Island was ok. We got there and found out the island wasn't actually magnetic which earned it the title of "inappropriately named Island". There was nothing to do there! We search for a rumoured waterfall but couldn't find it. Thank God we only booked 2 nights there.
We are now in Airlie beach and it is raining boo! A and I are quickly discovering that we are city girls at heart and are really looking forward to Sydney in a few weeks! We are heading to 1770 later today.
Over and out,
Luce (Sheila) xx
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