No the title isn’t referring to the aftermath of my latest drunken episode. In fact it is the name of the islands that we are currently staying on (and funnily enough we have only gotten pissed a couple of times during the whole trip!). I assume that most of you already know about Phuket, the tropical island paradise on the coast of the Andaman. Well at least if you are European you should. Our resort seems to feature an unusually large number of Swedes and Germans and I now know how to say ‘Aiiie my sunburn!’ in over 5 West European languages! (To say it in swedish just say it in english but backwards. And add a couple of ‘Borks’ in there for good measure)

Phi Phi island is a smaller island off the coast of Phuket. It was totally decimated by the Boxing Day Tsunami and is still recovering today. Yesterday we took a boat from Phuket to Phi Phi and stayed over night at the Phi Phi Island Villiage, a resort on the other side of the island from where the tsunami hit. This morning we went and had a look at the Broadbridge Education Centre, a small school set up by Trisha Broadbridge using funds from a trust that was set up in her husbands name after he died in the tsunami. The beach is so flat you can walk out for about 400 meters and it is still only up to your knees so it is easy to see how a freak massive wave could totally destroy everything in sight.

In Phuket we have been staying at the Katathani resort down the bottom of the island. It is totally awesome with 7 pools and a really nice beach. The people here are also really nice and not just because its a 4.5 star resort. Even when lost in Bangkok people have been more than happy to help us find our way to where ever we were going. It’s a marked difference from Egypt where every man and his camel was hell bent on ripping us off and steering us towards his cousins papyrus shop! Occasionally I feel bad that I haven’t learnt any Thai this trip but a couple of cocktails later while relaxing by the pool and i’m over it.

Funnily enough even though I have nothing to do but eat, drink and generally laze around my brain still won’t shut off. The other day Rox and I both had a full body massage in the spa at the resort and the only thing I could think of the whole time was the new features and functionality we have planned for Firefly! Now all I have to do is keep all of the great ideas I have been having in my head until I can get them down. I could buy a pen and paper and start jotting but that sounds too much like hard work…

I think I might just have another drink and then go for a swim.