Koh Phi Phi Island

Hi there readers (all two of you!)

I write this from a funky smelling internet cafe in the main town on Phi Phi island after a very hot walk here from our place on Long Beach (called Paradise Pearl Bungalows). Our room is lovely and clean and air conditioned, and only $40 or so a night so we're living in a lot more luxury than last time we were in Thailand! It's absolutely wonderful to come out of the turquoise sea, covered in salt, and walk to our room, undress, shower and wash that off. Then wonder "am i going to have a nap this afternoon?" The answer this afternoon will be yes!

Yesterday, we hired a long-tail boat for 3 hours and he took us over to koh phi phi leh, the smaller of the two Phi Phi's, to show us the sights. We saw the beach from the movie "The Beach" (a little disappointing as it was rife with pasty white german tourists and buoys and litter. It's a shame the Thai people can't understand that keeping their places of interest clean will help out with tourism!)

We've been eating wonderful food (my breakfast this morning was fried rice with chicken, chilli and basil, and a fried egg!) and drinking loads of chang beer. The weather has been better than we expected - all the weather reports have been telling us for weeks that it's cloudy and thunderstorms every night. And whilst last night we did have a thunderstorm, I doubt it rained for this morning dawned bright and sunny. It's actually nice to have some clouds every now and then to block this roasting sun. Our skin is red and turning brown slowly.

All in all, it's wonderful here. The best thing, though, about holidays like this is spending all this time with each other only. We connect more, talk more, relax more, and do other stuff ;-) more than we do in our every day lives. Which is what a break like this should be about. Travelling with Tom makes me fall in love with him every day again, and life should be like that, really, shouldn't it?