Jessica and her rucksack. THAILAND

I decided i;m too much like a "gap yah" kid and decided to talk about my travel experiences only when asked... sooo i guess I'll have a little ramble to get it off my chest for a while.


Thailand-


Bangkok That's right.. I went all the way to Bangkok in May (2010) on my own back when there was a huge war going on.. and yes, there was lots of smoke.. soldiers..and a curfew ( had to be inside by 8pm ) but it really wasn't that all that bad!

I travelled down from Bangkok to Surat Thani on the over night train.. little scary. I was on the top bunk and came very close to falling out a numerous amount of times..Managed to fit myself, my day sack and my rucksack all on the bed. impressive? no. cramped? yes.

Then from surat thani i got a boat over to Ko Phangan. FULL MOON PARTY. I loved it over there!!!! one of my favourite thai islands. We often hired out quods/mopeds to drive off road around the island. shockingly I was a rubbish quod driver.. long story short... i reversed it in to a shop. angry thai men are scary. Luckily i had a great guy there to drive around for me!

Full moon party was imense. Biggest beach party i can imagine ever going to. Crazy stuff.. obviously pulled an all nighter, finished off the morning swimming in the sea fully clothed/drunk/where people pee'd all that night. Because that's the classy lady that i am.

That morning, still drunk James and i got a boat over to Koh Saumi. Which, btw.. is boring more for the honey mooners. so a few days later we went over to Koh Tao to do a diving course. As i have asthma nowhere would insure me to dive so instead i did a free-diving course. I thought i would be crap buttt i'm happy with the 60.69 feet i went down. For any of you who don't know, free-diving is where you swim down as far as you can on one breath and then swim back up again.. i was best going feet first without flippers,, which does make it harder to get back up.. but hey i like a challenge.

After a few days on Koh Tao i was ready for a bigger town so we decided to go to Phuket... Now.. phuket is.. how do i put this.. interesting. Its hard to tell the female from the Lady boy over there. especially in the ping pong shows ( sex shows ) A MUST SEE. i loved it, not remotely sexual, unless your fetish involves birds/blades and ribbons coming out of an OLD ladies private parts!

I met a great group of people in a hostel there and decided to travel with them for a bit. we went to Koh Phi Phi.. it was like a smaller version of Koh Phangan if i am honest. By this time i was in bed doubled over as i had gotten salmonella from my favourite food.. pad thai ( haven't had it since ) There was an amazing reggae bar on the island where anybody can go in the ring and fight to win a bucket. ( in thailand you drink alcohol out of bucket... great things)

So after about ten days of throwing my guts up.. loosing a stone and feeling like crap i start to get out of bed! which is fun.. as i lost my tan and look ridiculously pale next to my travel mates. We head to krabi for a few nights of beach and shopping and fire dancing. Im loving my new skinny look but others are concerned i have an eating disorder. Bulimia. Redicuolous.. as everybody knew i had food poisoning. but.. some people are very naive you cant blame them can you.

That's pretty much is for thailand.. i head back to Phuket to meet my then boyfriend samuel to travel with him for a bit.. now this could get interesting!