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Subject: Shame

This past week has been a great experience. When we arrived in Thailand we headed to a small island called Koh Phi Phi. It is a paradise island taken over by tourism – I'm ashamed to say that I am one of the culprits adding more Western influence to such a beautiful place. We managed to find a room right by a lagoon, where we can just step out of our door and go for a dip, but behind our room is beach! It's one of those islands where there are two main parts joined together by a thin strip of land. The thin strip is where all the bars and hotels/chalets are.

We booked ourselves on to a snorkelling trip. IT WAS FANTASTIC! I could not believe how much fun snorkelling could be. We travelled around on a little but long boat (like in the James Bond film Man with the Golden Gun). From 9am until 4pm we travelled to four different local islands, went to a few lagoons (really really beautiful and breathtaking sights) and snorkelled. When we sailed into the lagoon I felt I had been taken away from the whole world and I was in my own little paradise. There were so many tropical fish and corals I was constantly swimming as deep as I could instead of swimming at the surface level because there was so much life to see down there.

Anyway … Unfortunately I got sunburn (again!). However I did find out that coconut oil is good for sunburn – it's what they use out here and it helped me. But I was determined to have a good night out in spite of the pain. The drinks were sooo cheap, we were buying buckets, filling them with whisky and Red Bull! Met a few people and had a really good laugh, but unfortunately because I was exhausted from the day's trip I passed out at 11.30! I couldn't handle the amount of alcohol I had. Everyone in the club ran over to me, put me in the recovery position, panicked, thought I was on 'E' blah blah … All very embarrassing! But Ju and Fi looked after me and, in their drunken state, they had to explain to the people surrounding me that I was not on drugs but it was alcohol that had knocked me out. Of course I suffered in the morning and of course I told myself 'NEVER AGAIN!'

So long – hope to hear from you soon

Rob

From: Julian (backpackers@vee-tv.com)

To: VEE-TV

Subject: Moving on

Hello everyone!

We are in Thailand at the moment. We love it already! We believed that we had had enough time in Malaysia so we decided that we had to move on and forced ourselves to say good-bye to Malaysia, which was sad! But we suddenly settled down in Thailand when we arrived in Koh Phi Phi. I cannot describe how beautiful it was! We have fallen in love with that island!

We stayed there for four nights and we were upset when we had to leave Koh Phi Phi for Koh Samui! We found it so strange to sleep on the boat, which provided beds but no chairs, no tables! Amazing, isn’t it?

Take care

Julian

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