As it's my last day in Paradise

I think I shall probably go for a cocktail or a massage now I kind of feel i'm back on with the blog, Maybe will do some more editing of the last 2 weeks later.... I keep remembering things I should have put in.Like watching an entire ant colony migrate whilst we ate dinner ... thousands .. millions of them passing us by, using the bamboo banister as a double  decker super highway on their epic journey to move their entire city to an unknown place.... stuff like that.


These last three weeks where I have literally been bumming around and not doing much have been fantastic... but it took me about 2.5 months to settle down and relax, before that I seemed to need to DO lots and see things, but here, here you just can’t. It’s just too lovely to leave the beach, why would you want to?

In 3 days time I shall be in Australia, which I imagine will be another massive culture shock!   Just as I have become totally at home in SE Asia.  And Oz is not going to be walk in the park as I have, as they say, a long way to go and a short time to get there as I want to spend some time with Sean... and then it’s on to Sydney and then NZ after that!

Tell you what, though, I am looking forward to, (though not as much as I was at the start of the travels)  is wine!  Some good ozzy wine...mmmm.  there is no wine in SE Asia... well it’s wine Jim, but not as we know it.  It’s really expensive and tastes like something someone’s dared you to drink.

Had my last swim on the glorious calm sea today... seeming all the more delicious because I knew it was the last, the water was the perfect temperature, and extra sparkly for me.  No sea flies stung me and it was so hard to leave....  frankly if i wasn't meeting Kerim in Bangkok, I'd stay here another month.. perhaps I'd never leave like Michael the mad californian Hippy.(he spends most of his day going round massaging women on the beach)