Phuket

Blog-lag-tastic, we actually got back from Thailand about three weeks ago but here it finally is…

It rained a lot the day of the marathon which meant that for the runners it was cooler than it would otherwise have been, very welcome but wet like I’ve never experienced before, not so good. Monsoon season.

The next couple of days where intermittently rainy and sunny but always a pleasant temperature so you didn’t really mind. We managed to explore a bit and fit in Para-sailing, elephant trekking and white-water rafting. The second half of our week was perfect weather for lounging around the beach and the resort which is exactly what we did. Splitting our time between massages, the beach, the pool, eating and drinking.

We also had a couple of nights down in Patong with ‘A’ (top dude from our day with the elephants) Taking in the PhantaSea show and some Thai-boxing.

I guess patong (or what I heard about it) was why I’d avoided Phuket the last time we went to Thailand. In the end we had a couple of good trips down there but I think that what really made the holiday was being in a nice quiet-ish location where other places were accessible but not in your face.