Glad Mama used the hat, most gratifying after carrying it round everywhere!!!!!!

I’ll wait on the claim thing, mahaps send the things from singapore or New Zealand. as i can’t actually claim fron here i shouldn’t need them. No idea why i brought them in the first place. My bag is bursting with useless photocopies!

Will purchase another, malay hat so that you can have one each, and laughing at each other should eleviate the bordom of the quiet homestead!

Thanks for the mail mama, sounds like the weather is pretty nice at home at the mo. I am drinking some wierd pink stuff from the market. The lady mumbled ‘soya’ i think, but it doesn’t tast like it to me – interesting!!!

Love tanya

PS Geoff says all insurance companies are thieving scoundrels!!

What a disgrace!!! I might just write a complaining e-mail to the bloke who sorted it saying that i am most displeased!!!!

What should i do? Se4nd you the stuff or else keep it and then do it when i get bach (when the policy will have run out, and they will probable say they can’t deal with it any more!!!

T

nestling in the guest house at the mo watching the torent or rain flying of the roof!! It is really the rainy seasoin now, and the rain is just a solid sheet. You can;’t see more than two feet infront of you, and you wouldn’t have to go out for more than a nano second to be drenched. pleasent beach weather we thought!!!!! Geoff also wanted to hire some harley davison lookalike today… Mayhaps in bali!

Being barhams aswer to the village idiot, me thinkest that a platoon of highly trained guards (geoff) should be sent forth width to meet you, and perhaps even help you of the plane!!

WEll, we are of to do a spot of ‘singing in the rain’ as there is precious little else to do as the beach is a no go area!!

Love Tanya

Hail all,

Hi Luu!

WEll, in Krabi, on the beach at the moemtn. Thinking it was a pleasent litle beach with bamboo huts. we wew not a little astonished to roll up in the pick up and find manya posh shop along the paved sea front (looking like a boulavade in france) and a macd’s as well!!!!

Found a nice place to stay though and will explore today.

Still the first is it Jul??? Not long to go yet. We don’t terust you on your own in singapore so one or both of us will come to meret you at da airport, and either stay in singapore or head back into malaysia for a couple of days.

Liv – whats all this lose talk about sleevless t-shiorts???? Lokks like a vest to me!! Ansd whats with all this manic exercise? Geoff should start to do some as those three musculs Jul talked about are turning a little podgy!!!

Good photos there dod. Glad to hear you allowed mama the 50p to go into the fete!!!!
Have fun swimming and hope the good weather lasts. I am looking forward to NZ now.
Thanks for the mail about the air baloon mama!! We would have stayed longer in phanang, but were running out of time!!
We are going to go to Kota Bharu and the national park in malaysia, but will see what time we have left after that. There si a notice up on the wall for feb just gone for volunteers for sailing to malaysia!! That would have been great fun, but the ship sailed a few months ago.

Well, thats all form me for now. Am of to buy a couple of presentable things to wear in this posh hotel in bali!!!! All my top are thredbear now, but i’m ok for bottoims as i got dsome shorts and a skirt made in Hoi An.

Love to all
Tanya

happy anniversary! Hope you had a good day, and that the excitement wasn’t too much for you!

Liv: well done on finishing the exams, but you never see the back of them!! Do yuo reckon you’ve joined the ‘desmond’ club like me and tan?

G

Hail all,

That sounded rather on the hellish side to me jul. on the 1st you say? You are flying out on the same day as us arn’t yoou? The 6th? Well we will try to find a place to stay in the south of malasia. Will let you know soonest. Congrats and all that old hasbeens!!!! The hat looks good. Looks almost as hot as here over there. mama. do you want a thai hat as dod seems to have nicked that vietnam one???? Liv, hope it all went well. I didn’t understand my courses, just joined up a load of quotes lifter from the book with a few random words and hoped for teh best (which turned out to be a 2:2!!)

We woker up today to the welcome sighn of clouds!!!! A non broiling day.. Hazzzaaahhh!!!! WE at last found the strength to go on our planned walk to the next beach along the coast. Every other day we tried it, the sun seemed to seep all the energy out of us the moment we got up, and it was all we could do to slip down the customary morning pancake and fall into the hammock!!! (i have decided to have a western food diet for a few days to see if that gets rid of the bumps. Pancake and macaroni for me. I think it night be the soup. Probable the fish sauce or the soya sauce . we’ll se if it works. If not i will try the rice and fruit diet.)

The path was clearly market on the map fo the area to ‘bottle beach’, but we checked with the locals who were pretty cagy about the whole thing,saying we shoul dget a boat there, and that you had to know the way and all that. We scoffed at this and set of. We found the trail quite easily, and at first it was fine, and we had great fun scampering alonf between the trees and over the rocks. At times we had to use some great skills in finding the hidden path undure bushed and wot not. I, to my amazement, seem to be a little better at geoff than this. He relies to much on direction, and as he is standing there trying to calculate the lateral and vertical conections of the cliff to the sea, i found the path with little difficulty. Must get my abilities from mama!!!!

Some kindly soul had painted red markers every few hundres miles, so we were pretty sure we were going in the right direction. WE did a lot of back tracking though when one path would peeter out, and we went back to find the trail again. Much fun until we lost the path. It just seemed to come to an end. The kindly soul markinf the was sporadically had obviously given up, and we haD NO IDEA WHICH WAY TO GO. option one was to head back. we gave this up as a bad idea as the chances of finding the way home were slim i would say. The only other option was to climb down the cliff face onto the rocks be the sea and walk round the rest of the way on them,. Easier said than done!!!! Luckily the rocks aroudn here are not slippersy, and have many hand holds, but it was pretty steep. Geoff gave me the bag to carry as he was too scared!!!( i bet dod would have given it to you mama!!) It was pretty much hang on by the finget tips and toes and scuttle along like acrab until we got to a big rock. Jumped onto this and and then scaled down the side of it. liv and jul would have loved it!!!we looked back up at the vurticle cliff, and decided that the only way was onwards! WE scrambled along the rocks, sliding and climbing. Very tiring. My thighs were killing me as we were constantly on a tilt. Geoff ankles were his problem. The beach always seemed to be just around the next corner. we could see boat loads of people sailing past us to the beach. all the ocupents staring at us in amasment. Obviously not a common walk then… WE could now see the beach, but it didn’t seem to be getting any neared!!!!

We eventually arrive and collaps on the sand. Pathetic!!!! After a drink and a relax we decide that this beach is not as nice as ours!!! Loads of pepole lounging around. there si no one to speak of on ours. We opt for the boat back. It is actually a long way, and all we see on the trip back is inpenetrable jungle!!!!
It reminded me of the walks in seychelles to anse azio and anse giorgette we used to do. Much fun and adventure!!!!

Well, my feet feel pulpifies and i’m of to sit in the hammok.

Love to all,
tanya

Jul: does that mean that annika might come to bali????