Re: So I'm gonna do a thing where I review places I've been and things I've done. Just for my own benefit mostly, but hopefully they'll give you a bit of a sense for life over here so far.

> So I'm gonna do a thing where I review places I've been and things
> I've done. Just for my own benefit mostly, but hopefully they'll
> give you a bit of a sense for life over here so far.
>
> Koh Tao-- this place is pretty fantastic if you ask me. Very
> touristy, of course, but that goes without saying. One side of the
> island is ridiculous. Shop after shop selling tourist crap, bars
> showing rugby on tv, English bookstore upon English bookstore. Then
> there are 5 or 6 beautiful little bays perfectly secluded with one
> or two little resort places each. A little expensive over there, but
> a beautiful spot to hike to and spend an afternoon snorkeling and
> lazing about. Then there was our bay which was in between. Big bay,
> but not very nice to swim in, lots of restaurants and stores to
> choose between, but no tv bars or obnoxiousness. Nice cheap places
> to stay and easy access to everything else.
> Overall koh Tao was great, I recommend it, you can easily spend a
> couple of weeks there andnot get bored, even if you don't do any
> scuba diving, which I didn't do, but I've heard it's fantastic.
> There's at least some chance that I'm going to go back there and get
> my scuba certification and do a bit of diving. It's a bit expensive,
> but it's cheaper than it would be most anywhere else.
> Oh and if you go I highly recommend the night boat. It's 11 pm to
> 5am and they just shove you in a room with matresses on the floor
> and off you go. I slept pretty well.
> Koh Chang- there are two koh chang's one is in the gulf of Thailand
> near Cambodia and is a big resort island because it's so close to
> Bangkok. This is the other one. It was so chill. Just a mile or so
> stretch of sand with some little bungalow places along the way. If
> you go, go to sunset bungalows. Good food, good library of books,
> pretty cheap. I split a room with a frenchman who was real legit.
> We'd all just sit around swimming and reading all day. You'd just
> order food whenever you felt like it, since you spent all day in
> sunset's restaurant anyway then we'd play volleyball for a couple of
> hours towards sunset (with most everyone else from the beach,
> Germans all) and play card till the electricity went out. They only
> had electricity from sunset to eleven or so. The one time I used the
> Internet I walked a half a mile down the beach, waded a shoulder
> deep river, went up to a bartender and said "Internet?" he said "5
> minutes" shouted to the guy next Door "Internet" that guy shouted
> down 50 yards down the beach. A little while later I heard a
> generator start. A little while after that, I had the Internet.
>