Monday 19 Feb: I've now been on Koh Lanta island for 5 days. My bungalow is just 20 metres from a beautiful long sandy beach. I spent the first couple of days looking about, early morning shore line jogging, sitting on the beach, swimming, checking out the price of beer, travelling up and down the island on a little motor bike, then watching the sunset. 
On SaturdayI went on a snorkelling trip around some other ,mainly unhabited, islands. At one place we (about 30 people) swam, wearing life jackets, through an 80 metre cave lit only with a couple torches to emerge on the other side of the cliff inside a volcano, the sides of which went straight up for approximtely 150 mteres . This was allegedly a popular place for pirates to hoard their booty.
Yesterday I took the ferry to Koh Phi Phi, said to be one of the most beautiful islands in Thailand. I had a stroll round the town and then sat on the beach for 3 hours before getting the ferry back.
On one of my early morning jogs I noticed the Welsh Dragon flying above the Miami cocktail bar, one of the several bars along the beach. On Saturday I decided to try their happy hour of reduced price Chang beer. Behing the bar was a Thai man and I said "Prynhawn da, siarad Cymraeg?" He immedaitely recognised it as Welsh and explained that his girlfriend was from Wales and she would shortly be back. So I had another beer an eventualy a young red haired woman called Katherine Griffith, recently of Colwyn Bay, arrived and we had a long chat about who we might know in common , dredging back to my Llandrillo College days. Her mother side of the family were called Fenton and ran Colwyn Bay's main toy shop.
Tomorrow I move onto GeorgeTown, Penang, in Malaysia
On SaturdayI went on a snorkelling trip around some other ,mainly unhabited, islands. At one place we (about 30 people) swam, wearing life jackets, through an 80 metre cave lit only with a couple torches to emerge on the other side of the cliff inside a volcano, the sides of which went straight up for approximtely 150 mteres . This was allegedly a popular place for pirates to hoard their booty.
Yesterday I took the ferry to Koh Phi Phi, said to be one of the most beautiful islands in Thailand. I had a stroll round the town and then sat on the beach for 3 hours before getting the ferry back.
On one of my early morning jogs I noticed the Welsh Dragon flying above the Miami cocktail bar, one of the several bars along the beach. On Saturday I decided to try their happy hour of reduced price Chang beer. Behing the bar was a Thai man and I said "Prynhawn da, siarad Cymraeg?" He immedaitely recognised it as Welsh and explained that his girlfriend was from Wales and she would shortly be back. So I had another beer an eventualy a young red haired woman called Katherine Griffith, recently of Colwyn Bay, arrived and we had a long chat about who we might know in common , dredging back to my Llandrillo College days. Her mother side of the family were called Fenton and ran Colwyn Bay's main toy shop.
Tomorrow I move onto GeorgeTown, Penang, in Malaysia
3 comments:
greeting from armenia dad,
sounds like the jogging on the beach might (more or less) remind you of rhyl.
Certainly doesn't sound as though you're getting home sick - which is good.
Glad to hear you're having lots of adventures
Tom
I'm assuming that the bowling green and the Sun Centre were behind you when you took the picture of the beach.
love
matt + clare
Hi Paul-finally worked out how to get onto your blog! you know me and technology-I needed David Lim to sort me out.
Yak-i-da(no idea how to spell it, but my Welsh brother in law assures me it means cheers!!)
Good to see you looking so relaxed.
Regards
Kathy Mohan
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