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It’s so cold at home!
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We woke up to the sound of rain and it’s only the second day of rain we have had since in Phuket. We needed to get some final shopping done before coming back home, so back to Jungceylon and then we wandered back along the markets in the rain.

The hotel gave us a late check [...]

Another early-ish start and we were all off on our tour to Pang Nga Bay. We took a speed boat out, which was a great way to to do it as it was so much quicker than the big slow boats.
We arrived at James Bond Island first and had an hour to look around the [...]

Bron and Ibooked ourselves in a Discovery Diving trip to Phi Phi Island. We started the day by being collected from the Hotel at 7.30 and we made our way down to the pier at Chalong Bay.

No time wasted, the boat head off on our three hour cruise (a three hour cruise!!!!). We arrived at [...]

This morning I decided to get up and try and take some pictures. I haven’t taken many for some time and thought it might be a good opportunity.  Bron and I walked down to the river and watched a number of local fishermen going out for the day.

Above: Fishermen takening their boat out for a [...]

Another interesting day in Patong! We went to Phuket Town to explore, however the hotel bus only went to the shopping centre which we had already been to, so we decided to catch a taxi to the city centre. Once arriving there, we found not much around, and we were approached by a local taxi [...]

Another magnificent day in Paradise and another sunny day. After breakfast, we spent the morning by the pool followed by lunch at Oasis next door. Sue recommend we hire some Tuk-Tuk’s and travel south along the island and we can do a beach hop. We first went to Karon beach, we went through the market, [...]

Phuket hasn’t changed much since we were hear last year. We have done the usual things, shop, massage, swim, eat and drink, but not in that order. We have been back to see most of the people  we have met.
Greg had a big night with Danny from Lekey’s bar and hasn’t been out of bed [...]

We spent the morning by the pool and Bronny tried the scuba diving in the pool without any problem. Looks like we are going to dive at Phi Phi Island this year.  The dive instructor said the marine life is amazing, there are also some black tipped sharks around the area and we will more [...]

We caught a taxi to the airport in Hong Kong as it’s on Lantau Island, some distance from the city. The taxi driver took us to the wrong terminal, but we managed to find our way and checked in. Next was the maze from the check-in to the gate, never been to a more confusing [...]