Christmas evening we spent round the fire with good friends we met and Thai people who worked at the resort, playing guitars and bongos whilst having a game of ring of fire which seemed to fizzle out after much confusion of how to play… (the Thai lot of course, far too many rules!).
We headed over to the mainland of Phi Phi island, away from our exotic retreat, and walked round and up to our booked accommodation at Golden Hill which was not what we expected. The room was dirty and pretty much half built and, just to top it off, smelt of sewage. We made a quick exit out to have a look at our old accommodation at P.P Garden Homes and saw Kris our friend who worked there and magically happened to have a spare room for us the next day! (very lucky as most places were booked..). We managed to get most of our money back from smelly hill and slept, well… barely, one night and legged it over to our beautiful Garden homes which was about £3 more in price and worth every penny! Sophie noticed Kris had a new pet kitten so she and I were over joyed (we get like this about small animals) and felt very much at home.
A couple of days later our friends turned up, Oli, Robin, George (who oh my god looked completely different, Thailand had changed him for the better), Elly and Tommy. In that time we spent in Phi Phi with everyone we all took a boat trip to monkey beach, and Maya bay, snorkelling and all scaring the crap out of each other, by avoiding sea enemies. We had met up with some lovely American girls at the time who were teaching at George’s school and they came joined in on our drunken evenings, in fact they were madder than us! Hehe. We headed straight for the beach in the evenings and the boys would play their guitars after the music stopped at 1 in the morning where we would find to our surprise everyone from the beach huddling around them in a circle listening and shouting songs at them to play. Around 200 people listening!
On New Year’s Eve we all got completely smashed of course, firstly at our place playing ring of fire and painting ourselves with glow paint and drinking from an enormous bucket! The countdown happened twice but we were all too happy to care, we were just too merry and excited to be in Thailand all together. We spent a lot of the night chatting away to each other and dancing till our legs gave way! A journey home which usually took 5 minutes took an hour as we brought food, sophie had a lay down on an ice cream fridge, sophie fell on the floor laughing at someone and tommy saved a damsel in distress. We then spent the last half an hour of it talking on the side of the road about god knows what, and all got bitten to death by mosquitos only to notice it was nearly 7 in the morning! It had to be one of the best new years we can remember…
New Years Day topped off our time with our friends, we sat on the beach outside Stone’s bar listening to music and the boys with their guitars, talking more about stuff we now cannot remember. We all just relaxed and did nothing, it was perfect…
We all began to go our separate ways and we headed to Koh Lanta for a bit of peace and quiet…
Happy New Year to you both! What an inspirational new years you had. Makes me wanna learn guitar and get a plane ticket for next year’s celebration. Wow!
I went to Berlin for NYE and had an awesome time. Makes me think that going abroad is the only option for a good New Years party. Enjoy the rest of yr adventures.
Ad x