Rabies?

Ok, Barbados was amazing, but Koh Samui kicks that islands ass in some aspects. I spent three weeks in Barbados desperatly looking for monkeys, to no prevail. On Koh Samui I can sit on the beach drinking beer and wait for a guy with a monkey to come to me! This happened last night whilst celebrating Uniteds victory against Tottenham. I paid the monkey 100 baht (roughly 20 kr) and took loads of pictures with him sitting on my head and shoulders. However during him climbing all over me, I found out the hard way that monkeys have very sharp claws, and now I have three big scratch marks in my forehead, but they go well with my two previous scars. What symptoms do I look for to find out if I've got rabies? I guess I'll find out sooner or later. Koh Samui has been great, good weather most of the time good nightlife and fun in general. Tomorrow morning I head further south to meet up with friends in Phuket. Everyone I've met and asked about Phuket say that it's truly an awful and horrible place, so I'm really looking forward to it!

Operation Koh Samui

I speant one more night in Bangkok, but took it quite easy, then the morning after i took a swim in the roof-top pool of my hotel. Amazingly I bumped into two friends, or rather friends of friends from Stockholm, it's a small world after all. I speant the day with them, but then I had to leave for the trainstation. I had decided earlier that morning that my first destination after Bangkok would be Koh Samui, partly because it was mentioned in one of the best films of all times (not as voted by the Screen Actors Guild) "Meet The Parents."

The trip I decided on, took me down on the night sleeper-train. This was going to take 11 hours, but as this trip goes with delays it took me 13. This of course meant that we missed our conecting boat and had to take another one, it took us an extra hour and a half to get to this ferry-station, and when we finally got onto the boat it broke down after 2 minutes travel. It took them over an hour, but they managed to fix this and eventually I arrived at the beautiful island of Koh Samui about 5 hours later than planned.

Im staying at a Bungalow-resort on the south-east beach, called Lamai. It really is a paradise-like place allthough driving through Lamai it was hard to see anything but swedish-flags. I'm staying here four more nights then heading down to Phuket to meet up with some friends. I'll try to get some pictures up here soon, but until then you'll just have to imagine.

One Night In Bangkok...

Ok so I was a bit delayed, and got to Bangkok quite a bit later than i had expected, instead of 18:00 I got into town at around 03:00 the morning after, without any luggage. Anyway at Heathrow I met two guys, Henrik and Robert from Littleland (Smaland) Sweden. As they had the exact same flightplan as I did, we got all the same delays and our three bags turned out to be the only three bags missing. Robert and Henrik seem to have planned their trip a bit better than me, so when we got in to their hotel in the morning we could easily put an extra bed in the room. We stayed at the same hotel the second night as well, as this was the adress where the bagage could be delivered to. However the second night everything was booked up, apart from the two bedroom-suite, so we stayed in that of course, definetly not expensive with european measures but it will probably be the most expensive stay of my trip. Bangkok is amazing and quite unlike anything I've ever seen before, on our first night out we somehow managed to end up in brothel, honest mistake as the tuk-tuk driver misunderstood what we were saying. He then drove us to a huge night-club called Hollywood which was interesting. When we got home our bags had arrived, and that's where I am now, sitting in a shop writing this. I've moved to a youth-hostel, probably just for one night and then i might head southwards or check the north out, haven't really planned anything yet, we'll have to wait and see what happens.

Off to a Flying Start...

Not really a flying start, at the moment I have 2 minutes and 45 seconds to use of somebody elses Airport internet time. I'm way to tight to spend 29 kr/hour on this shit. First plane from Arlanda is allready 3½ hours delayed, hopefully it won't be more delayed, because at the moment I think I should still make my connection from Heathrow. Anyway times running out...

Two-Thousand and Eight...

It's now been almost a year since my last entry to this facinating blog. A lot has happened, kind of... Got a new job otherwise things have been pretty much the same old usual. However I'm not writing to sum up 2007, I'm writing to tell people that maybe 2008 will be a better year for this sad blog, and lets face it, if it isnt better than 2006 and 2007, it will be pretty f*cking awful.

2008 started with a funeral for a close relative, which to be honest wasn't the best of starts, but those things happen and from there on its been an amazing year. I've allready been on more coach-trips this year than ever before in my life due to my travels within the U.K, where I visited family in Brighton and got to stay with my two dear friends Joanna and Sonja in Leeds and Nottingham (Thank you and all your friends for showing me that the north of England isn't shite). I also squeezed in the highlight of my life so far whilst in the North, when I went to my Mecca, Manchester United's home stadium, The Theatre Of Dreams, Old Trafford. The Theatre of Dreams is a very fitting name for this place, as the whole experience was completly overwhelming and amazing. We (Manchester United) managed to beat Newcastle United with the unbelievable tennis-figures of 6-0 in the end!

Now I've been back in Stockholm for 3 days, but in about 36 hours I'm leaving on a jetplane for Bangkok, Thailand which should be great. Then from Thailand I fly to Mocambique to see what exactly my parents are doing there. I've got a lot to do before my trip, just decided that I can't be doing with the whole backpacking experience, so first thing tomorrow morning I have to find a new suitable bag, we'll see how that goes.

Anyways... hopefully I'll be able to keep this page updated regularly during my travels to keep you dedicated few informed about what I'm up to. This is Paul Skinner wishing all of you a great 2008! Good Night.