I'm writing this blog as I'm sat in
Singapore airport waiting for my flight to Bangkpok. I have to wait
10 hours in the airport but luckily for me this airport is pimped out.
It has a bajillion shops, cafes, food joints, etc etc and it also has
this game which anyone flying can have a go of called the social
tree. I had a gander at it but it was taking ages to do anything and
y'know I've only got 10 hours to kill, can't be wasting my time. Some
Asian bambinos seemed giddy enough about it though.
Me and Christian had been to this
airport about a year ago when we left Bangkok to go to Darwin and as
I sit here waiting, I can't help but think how fast this last year
has gone. Too fast. But isn't it always like that? I did not get my
second year visa for Australia and I was pretty devastated about it.
I believed deep down that I would absolutely get it and have another
year in Oz, but alas, it wasn't to be. Before I found out, I was
living in a comfortable bubble of ignorance. Blisffully unaware that
the last few weeks of strolling around Darwin were to be my last on
Ozzy turf.
When I found out I kept thinking about
what I could have done differently to prolong my stay, analysing all
the twists and turns of the last year to see if there could have been
a way to avoid this. But it doesn't matter. After about 3 days of
self pity I came to the realisation that whatever mistakes were made,
they were made with the best intent. And the world is a big place after all, so much more to see and do.
So I flew from Manchester to Bangkok to
Darwin to Melbourne, then went back to Darwin, and now I will be
heading to Bangkok and then to Manchester (na na na, Manchester na na
na). How do you reflect on a year like this? Me and Christian had no
idea when we were sat in that Manchester airport on a rainy Monday
morning what was in-front of us. We got drunk that morning and nearly
caught a flight to fiji, or somewhere like that. When we finally
arrived in Bangkok the pair of us were stunned. The taxi journey from
the airport to the hostel lasted about 50 minutes and neither of us
said much as we gawked out of the windows at the concrete jungle
around us.
Thailand was an amazing time though.
From the moment we gulped down our first Chang, with it's unregulated
alcohol percentage, to having the worst food poising ever on our last
day – it was fantastic. Some highlights from Thailand;
Meeting a Dutch couple on a cabin boat
and getting Changed up together which led to Christians infamous
'Chang face'. We had about 4 or 5 long neck bottles of Chang and
there was a picture of Christian which I took on my phone where he
looks like the happiest any person has ever been, he clearly doesn't
know which planet he is on but he looks so content.
Riding elephants with the German super
couple. We had a tour of Thailand booked for us which meant we kept
running into the same people throughout our time in Thailand. Two of
those people were the German super couple. They both looked gorgeous
and this one particular day me and Christian were, yep you guessed it,
hungover, and it was time to go riding elephants. You couldn't have
seen a further contrast between this German sex God and Goddess and
then me and Christian who probably had sick in our beards. We were
pissing ourselves when we got on these elephants, you felt like you
could fall off at any minute. There's a picture I had on my phone of
the German super couple looking like movie stars on top of their elephant and then me and Christian next to them laughing our heads
off at probably nothing.
Boat trip from hell. It's strange to
call this a highlight since it was one of the worst things I've ever
experienced, but it was just so damn memorable. I've never had any
sea sickness but within about 10 minutes of being on this boat you
knew something was going wrong. The boat kept smashing into these
huge waves and at one point you thought the boat was going to snap in
half. After one particularly big crash through a wave a woman yelped
at the front of the boat. Once you realised the boat wasn't going to
split in half another problem occurred – wanting to hurl your guts
out. Everyone on the boat started to be sick. It was really
disgusting – you could hear people throwing up in every direction
and it left a lingering smell of fresh sick everywhere. It was gross.
One bloke at the front made the loudest noise every time he hurled. I
filled a couple of sick bags up before going onto the deck because I
couldn't stand it anymore. When we were finally released from the sea
we had to get a taxi to our next destination. It was me and Christian, post-vomit, and 5 immaculate Japanese girls stuck together in this
taxi. We must have stunk. And again, we had sick in our beards.
Moaning dutch girl. We arrived at one
of the islands and got chatting to this Dutch girl who then proceeded
to whinge and moan about the place. Me and Christian observed the
beautiful surrounding paradise thinking what the 'eff are you on about
love.
5 kilometer walk on a hangover from hell. Hey, what do you like to do when you're hungover? Eat crap food and watch films, yea? Well me and Christian had to do a 5k walk up a mountain feeling like we'd just been dug up out of the ground. To be fair though, it was in a beautiful national park with amazing water falls and by the end of the walk you felt great.
Mad, mad, mad night out on Khao San Road. We had a great couple of nights out in Bangkok. I got a tattoo and ate a scorpion on one of them but the final night out on Khao San Road was just crazy. We got drinking with a bunch of guys and gals (one of the guys looked like David Villa) and it just descended into madness with me and Christian running back to the hostel and then ending up being facebook stalked by two nutters. Good times.
God there were so many little and big
things that I loved that happened in Thailand, too many to write
about on here. It will be great to go back before going home.
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