Bugger Bognor
Bugger Bognor
Let’s face it, there’s not much to do on an island the size of a pocket handkerchief, but we had another lovely day on the beach, thank you. Marred only a tad when the guy selling me a beer tried to cheat me with 130 in change. “I gave you a thousand,” I said, and […]
Rinse & repeat. Innit Read More »
We went to the beach. It was lovely. We’ve come back for a shower. In a bit, we’re going back for the sunset. It’s hell, but someone has to do it. And so we did.
Another day of ceaseless endeavour Read More »
Up at the crack…well, 7.30ish…for our postponed snorkeling island tour. We’d chosen the five island option: in our experience the longer ones can start to become a bit of an ordeal at the end of a long day of off the boat, swim, on the boat, chug chug chug, off the boat, swim, rinse &
Underground overground snorkeling free Read More »
The original plan was to take a snorkeling trip, but when we saw the weather we decided to postpone for a day. As it turned out, the forecast was completely wrong and we could have gone after all, but by then we’d missed the boat, literally as well as figuratively, so we decided instead to
And there was us thinking it would be a few palm leaf huts by a sleepy seashore. Having said which, it’s pretty quiet till the evenings. Presumably all the young folk are off scuba diving and that, or sleeping off last night’s excess. And in truth there’s really not a whole lot to do during
Koh Lipe – it’s a (not a lot) happening place Read More »
D’ja see what I did there, didja? Hem… Anyway, moving on… Wow but it’s nice here. An island so small that you can walk from our beach to Sunrise Beach – literally right across the island – in about 15 minutes. And that’s not walking fast. Because even now, at five in the evening, it’s
We’ve hit t’island Read More »
Half ten of another glorious morning, and I’m sitting out on the verandah killing an hour waiting for the cab to the ferry, doing a bit of blog housekeeping ready for the whole new chapter that will be Thailand. And it occurs to me that while these posts have provided unending fun and adventure, intrigue,
Malaysia – a few final thoughts… Read More »
Following last night’s prophetic triumph, when I assured Virle that it wouldn’t rain and half an hour later we got hit by a deluge of monsoon proportions on the way to the night market at Kuah, I should have known better than to assure her that there clearly wasn’t a breath of wind before we
Finally, we walk in the sky Read More »
Well, you can’t say we don’t try. Our last abortive trip to the moribund wildlife park recommended by the young Hungarians was at the weekend. So, thinking maybe the ‘nice man’ they’d told us about had just been taking some time out, we decided to have another go, in the hopes that he’d have returned,
Watch the birdie, say 奶酪 Read More »
But we ended up back on the beach! The plan was to take a cable car to the Skywalk. Apparently it’s great – way way up in the mountains, lots of trees, wildlife, the whole bit. Got off to a bit of a dud start, when we failed to pass anywhere promising for breakfast en
We did *try* something different Read More »