A Slice of Pai

And so to Sleepy Pai. Actually it's pronounced "Bye"

and it's just lovely.

Took a bus journey here over the mountains on lots of hairpin bend roads, but the jungle is lush all around and the misty blue mountains so captivating you that you can't see any perilous drops to speak of so it's not quite so bad as I'd been expecting. Buffalo and cows stand around in the road, calmy being narrowly missed... they are clearly used to this, but i wonder if I ever will be.

Stupid STUPID ipod froze again though. Just crashes, For no reason. And since the middle button has ceased to function in any way the only way to reset it is to let the battery run flat which takes bloody AGES. When it crashes like that my laptop can't even accesss it either - it refuses to be recognised. BASTARD.

So whether or not the house sells, am still going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new one... I can't keep having these long journeys with no music or podcasts, and I'd downloaded the Now show, and whole load of other comedy specially for the journey. (which took literally hours over the weak connection at the last place i stayed, patiently clicking and clicking and resuming download every 2 mins when the connection became too weak to download, or stopped

altogether) I feel so cheated dammit.

I suppose Bangkok is going to be the best place to buy one though, so in some ways i'm lucky to be in vaguely the right area to get the best deal. What do you think though? Should I invest in the classic - the full 120gb daddy of them all, (actually has more memory than my laptop) or a 16 gb nano which is still 4 x bigger than what i have now? OR buy an i phone, as my contract with t-mobile is just about up. Can i keep my number if i move to the network that i phones work on? Your comments, suggestions and general feedback on this would be most welcome.

Anyway! I digress! Pai!

It's gorgeous.

It's tiny and sleepy and quiet and beautiful and really laid back and in the middle of nowhere. I have only been here a few hours and i love it.

People are so friendly and things are so calm that dogs sleep in the middle of the road, whilst people drink beer outside and chat in the afternoon heat.

I've met a few people on my brief little wander round... one guy getting rather a groovy tattoo... (don't worry M&D, I shall still not be getting 'inked' myself)

I am however, off to the local place to "hang out", and maybe have my first beer for over a week!!