Jaws

When I travel to a place, I deliberately don’t do much research. Realistically, there is so much going on in the world I’m not going to see all of it. Doing research gives you loads of options but because I like to experience everything, I’d end up having to choose and missing out on other things because of the limited time I have. Personally I’d rather not know about the things I’m missing, but focus my energy on the things I’m doing. And if, when I get home, someone says, “did you see…” and I didn’t, I start a list of what to see when I go back one day.

I like to get recommendations of what to, it’s a great way of picking the best things to do and avoiding the crap. It makes my life easier, and so far I’ve only had good experiences because of it.

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Naughty Climber

I had bought myself a ticket over to Phi Phi from a booth in Ton Sai last night. It was 400b (£10) which is far cheaper than I expected. The chap at the booth told me to get to the longtail boats on the beach at 9am. Because I’m British I was there at 8:45. By 9:15 I was concerned I’d somehow missed it, but people were still turning up so at 9:30 I resigned myself to “island time”. At 9:45 the ferry showed up and the longtail boatman sprang into action, heaving rucksacks into the boat and helping people aboard.

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Rest Day

OK so we have been climbing for 3 days straight. We need a rest day. Also, Geoff tweaked his wrist coming off a route yesterday. He couldn’t do the move and dropped onto the rope but didn’t let go. He held the feature to long and now may have damaged something in his wrist. Time for a break, before a break.

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Alone Found

I was in Stroud a couple months back. Just wandering around the town with Angus, popping in and out of shops. There was some sort of festival on and the streets were alive with quirky activity. Colourful people danced and jostled around looking at the next passing attraction.

We stopped in a bookshop and spread out to explore, picking up books and commenting across the hushed isles. Here i came across a book, whose title eludes me, with a passage that struck a chord. I’ll try and paraphrase as best I can but I did not memorise word for word. The gist of it was;

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Rain In The Ocean

The boat left at 6am, which meant we had to be there for 5.30am which meant leaving the apartment at 5am which meant getting up at 4.45am! Just not a cool time in the morning. I had bought a cakey loaf thing and canned coffee for breakfast to help down the sea sickness tablets. I’m so glad I did take these because the crossing was very rough. We had booked the fastest ferry off the island but it was still 3 hours of lurching, swooping and buffeting to reach the main land. I did my best to remain unconscious as this was the only way I was keeping my loaf down. Continue reading Rain In The Ocean

Love Koh Tao

We have been here coming on a week now, so naturally we have found a few favourite places. Our morning routine has developed to include a coffee at our favourite house followed by some sort of sandwich or english breakfast, Thai style. This time we had eggs on toast at the coffee house and did a bit of remote work before england rose for the day. This decision was helped by the thundering rain, persuading us to stay put a while longer. Continue reading Love Koh Tao