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 Emily Gap Year

22-Apr-2005

Hi everyone! I'm sitting in an internet cafe mainly because it has air conditioning, but also to let you know what we've been doing. Our flight was delayed 26 hours, since a new plane had to be flown out from Thailand, but Air Phuket paid for a hotel and meals until we left the next afternoon, getting in yesterday morning. We decided to stay in a nice hotel the first night so had air conditioning which was really nice, but I doubt that we'll have any more of that for a while. Yesterday we wandered around Khao San Road (the backpackers street) and did some shopping, then we had dinner at a street stall. This morning we went on a tuk tuk (local 3 wheel motorbike/cart) on a tour around the city and we think we might have been scammed, we went to a tailor and got fitted for suits and a dress for me, making of mistake of paying for it upfront, but although Brad is convinced that we'll be cheated, I think the shop looked authentic enough. We'll see.

We went to a few temples but none of them were very impressive, then went to Chinatown for lunch. We're about to take a bus and then a boat to Koh Tao, an island on the east coast where I'm going to do my openwater dive course and Brad's doing some dives. 3 of his friends are already out there and they paid the same as us, so we don't think we got ripped off there. After that we're planning on going to Koh Phan Ngang to a full moon party. We'll see what happens after that, probably on to Cambodia next.

Love Emily and Brad
 

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