29 Dec 2012 - 01 Jan 2013
Our first overnight bus in Thailand wasn't too bad I have to admit. We couldn't believe how smooth it was after bus travel in Nepal. We managed to get some Valium which helped knock Sam out cold, but me not so much.I think I managed a very scattered hr of sleep but still the seats were super comfy and went really far back. I'm just a bad sleeper.
We arrived in Phuket about 7am and grabbed a taxi to Patong Beach where our pre booked guesthouse was located. The driver had no idea where it was and ended up dropping us off on a street and leaving us to then walk around for the next 2hrs in the hot sun with all our baggage trying to find it. We asked a million different Thai people who all kept pointing us in different directions so we found ourselves walking backwards and forwards like lost puppies. Sam wanted to give up and just find somewhere else but we had already paid the first night deposit and I wasn't willing to throw money away like that. It was horrible, the sun was beating down on us and we're loaded with all our baggage which was killing me slowly. But I was determined to find our place! Eventually we did but it was only 10am by this stage and we couldn't check in til 1pm. So we dumped our stuff, changed into swimmers and headed to Patong beach. It was extremely hot and crowded and not a nice beach to relax on at all. Thai people are trying to sell you all sorts of stuff and you never get a moment of peace. We had made sure lathered ourselves with sunscreen and only spent a total 1.5hr on the beach itself before having lunch and heading back to the guesthouse to check in. We soon found ourselves very badly sunburnt and realized the sunscreen we bought in Nepal was super dodgy! You shouldn't get burnt in only 1.5hrs in the sun when you've applied sunscreen!
Our room was 650 Baht ($20) a night and was a basic standard room. It was in the center of the building with no windows so it would appear like nighttime 24/7. We soon found this very enjoyable when day sleeping! Which we ended up doing a lot. We would sleep til 2pm in the afternoon and because of the quiet and darkness it would feel like the middle of the night!
The best thing by far about our new home was Banzan night markets which were literally 1minute walk from our front door. They were run by Thai locals and were stalls filled with different cheap Thai food and were on every single night! We found ourselves eating there constantly. The different food selections were incredible and the deserts amazing!
We hit up Bangla rd on our first night to let our hair down and get drunk. We started on the cheap Changs from 7 Eleven before finding a bar which had a large sign saying 4 cocktails and 4 shooters for 500 baht. This was my last memory before everything went black.
Sam said we were walking back to our room, pretty much straight after that photo, when I disappeared. My last memory was of us drinking those cocktails and shots and then I came to sitting in the gutter of Bangla Rd with my head between my knees spinning out like a bitch and trying not to vomit. I could see everyone's feet and hear all the drunks walking up and down the street all around me. I heard people talking about me and laughing but I couldn't move, I couldn't lift my head in fear of vomiting. It was awful. Eventually this nice Dutch girl and her English boyfriend dragged me out of the gutter and took me back to my guesthouse on the back of taxi scooters which was insane. Sam was sitting out the front looking like someone had died. He was worried out of his mind for me, he looked everywhere apparently and even contacted the police, who obviously did nothing. They're probably use to it. It was 6am by the time we were reunited and apparently I went missing about 1.30am. I was missing for hours! Poor Sam... I tried to introduce him to my new friends who bought me home but he was in a very bad mood and so I thanked them and we went up to bed sleeping the day away.
We spent New years Eve mostly on Patong beach as there was alot going on. Lines and lines of food stalls which Sam was loving, cheap changs and fireworks. We got sucked into buying a big fuck off firework which we let off ourselves. It was huge! It gave off a big BANG explosion in the air but it only went off once and we were expecting more. Still it was awesome.
People were lighting lanterns and setting them off in the air filling the sky with beautiful floating lights. There were so many going off at any one moment that the sky looked like it was filled with millions of orange glowing stars. Some didn't make it and would crash and burn in the sea - Sam and I laughed at the failures! Soon Sam was sucked into buying one of his own and it didn't matter that he had two Thai people assisting him in launching it - the thing crashed and burned miserably! I could not stop laughing but I think Sam was actually sad - he had said it was a symbol of how our relationship would last... uh oh lol.
We were never in one place all night. There was too much going on that we found ourselves back and forth up the beach admiring it all. As it got very close to midnight we waited for the countdown but there wasn't any, the amount of fireworks just suddenly increased as the sky was exploding like crazy from a mix of professional ones and people setting off their own on the beach. It was madness and kind of felt like Territory day in Darwin! You had to run all over the place to dodge the ones that fell over lol.
We then walked through a very packed Bangla Rd where people were going mental with silly string and foam. We got sprayed a few times. It was insane.
The night ended with Sam getting very sick which we think was from a seafood dish he got at one of the food stalls along the beach.
What a great way to bring in 2013 :)
Our first overnight bus in Thailand wasn't too bad I have to admit. We couldn't believe how smooth it was after bus travel in Nepal. We managed to get some Valium which helped knock Sam out cold, but me not so much.I think I managed a very scattered hr of sleep but still the seats were super comfy and went really far back. I'm just a bad sleeper.
We arrived in Phuket about 7am and grabbed a taxi to Patong Beach where our pre booked guesthouse was located. The driver had no idea where it was and ended up dropping us off on a street and leaving us to then walk around for the next 2hrs in the hot sun with all our baggage trying to find it. We asked a million different Thai people who all kept pointing us in different directions so we found ourselves walking backwards and forwards like lost puppies. Sam wanted to give up and just find somewhere else but we had already paid the first night deposit and I wasn't willing to throw money away like that. It was horrible, the sun was beating down on us and we're loaded with all our baggage which was killing me slowly. But I was determined to find our place! Eventually we did but it was only 10am by this stage and we couldn't check in til 1pm. So we dumped our stuff, changed into swimmers and headed to Patong beach. It was extremely hot and crowded and not a nice beach to relax on at all. Thai people are trying to sell you all sorts of stuff and you never get a moment of peace. We had made sure lathered ourselves with sunscreen and only spent a total 1.5hr on the beach itself before having lunch and heading back to the guesthouse to check in. We soon found ourselves very badly sunburnt and realized the sunscreen we bought in Nepal was super dodgy! You shouldn't get burnt in only 1.5hrs in the sun when you've applied sunscreen!
Our room was 650 Baht ($20) a night and was a basic standard room. It was in the center of the building with no windows so it would appear like nighttime 24/7. We soon found this very enjoyable when day sleeping! Which we ended up doing a lot. We would sleep til 2pm in the afternoon and because of the quiet and darkness it would feel like the middle of the night!
The best thing by far about our new home was Banzan night markets which were literally 1minute walk from our front door. They were run by Thai locals and were stalls filled with different cheap Thai food and were on every single night! We found ourselves eating there constantly. The different food selections were incredible and the deserts amazing!
We hit up Bangla rd on our first night to let our hair down and get drunk. We started on the cheap Changs from 7 Eleven before finding a bar which had a large sign saying 4 cocktails and 4 shooters for 500 baht. This was my last memory before everything went black.
Sam said we were walking back to our room, pretty much straight after that photo, when I disappeared. My last memory was of us drinking those cocktails and shots and then I came to sitting in the gutter of Bangla Rd with my head between my knees spinning out like a bitch and trying not to vomit. I could see everyone's feet and hear all the drunks walking up and down the street all around me. I heard people talking about me and laughing but I couldn't move, I couldn't lift my head in fear of vomiting. It was awful. Eventually this nice Dutch girl and her English boyfriend dragged me out of the gutter and took me back to my guesthouse on the back of taxi scooters which was insane. Sam was sitting out the front looking like someone had died. He was worried out of his mind for me, he looked everywhere apparently and even contacted the police, who obviously did nothing. They're probably use to it. It was 6am by the time we were reunited and apparently I went missing about 1.30am. I was missing for hours! Poor Sam... I tried to introduce him to my new friends who bought me home but he was in a very bad mood and so I thanked them and we went up to bed sleeping the day away.
We spent New years Eve mostly on Patong beach as there was alot going on. Lines and lines of food stalls which Sam was loving, cheap changs and fireworks. We got sucked into buying a big fuck off firework which we let off ourselves. It was huge! It gave off a big BANG explosion in the air but it only went off once and we were expecting more. Still it was awesome.
People were lighting lanterns and setting them off in the air filling the sky with beautiful floating lights. There were so many going off at any one moment that the sky looked like it was filled with millions of orange glowing stars. Some didn't make it and would crash and burn in the sea - Sam and I laughed at the failures! Soon Sam was sucked into buying one of his own and it didn't matter that he had two Thai people assisting him in launching it - the thing crashed and burned miserably! I could not stop laughing but I think Sam was actually sad - he had said it was a symbol of how our relationship would last... uh oh lol.
We were never in one place all night. There was too much going on that we found ourselves back and forth up the beach admiring it all. As it got very close to midnight we waited for the countdown but there wasn't any, the amount of fireworks just suddenly increased as the sky was exploding like crazy from a mix of professional ones and people setting off their own on the beach. It was madness and kind of felt like Territory day in Darwin! You had to run all over the place to dodge the ones that fell over lol.
We then walked through a very packed Bangla Rd where people were going mental with silly string and foam. We got sprayed a few times. It was insane.
The night ended with Sam getting very sick which we think was from a seafood dish he got at one of the food stalls along the beach.
What a great way to bring in 2013 :)
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