Well only a short message this one as I've spent too many Bahts already.
Since my painful camel fall, and yes it was painful and not funny at all, OK, things haven't got a lot better having started taking "special" Thai malaria tablets and ending up with side effects probably as bad as Malaria itself. I won't go into the symptoms but it was fairly messy.
Have thankfully, I mean finally, left India behind. A very interesting country with the gap between rich and poor startling. There are some serious problems there and it amazes me that mosty of the inhabitants want to do anything about the squalour in which they live. Although the cow is holy, surly there is no need to sleep, literally, next to it, in its manure which most people do. I'm not joking. We stayed 1 day in Bombay; there are 15 million people living there, of which FIVE MILLION, that's the population of London, live on the streets. There is no hiding the fact that the place is very poor, but most upsetting of all, nobody, rich or poor, wants to do a damn thing about it.
Well, enough of that.. Arrived here in Thailand at the beginning of the week. And we've now worked our way down to a desert island by the name of Ko samui, the location of the book on which Leonardo Dicaprio's latest film is based. (A bit contrived, that, sorry.)
This place is lovely. If a wee bit seedy. Seeing 70 year-old men topless Thai go-go girls is not a pleasant experience and I'm trying not to think about it.
Now that the hip is on the mend I'm thinking of climbing the coconut trees for my breakfast. On second thoughts, I'll pay a Thai boy to do it for me.
Well, We next head to Malaysia and SIngapore before leaving for Sydney in ten days.
Hope all is well in England / France / New Zealand / Germany / Austria. Do stay in touch.
I know these emails are awfully impersonal but who cares, nobody probably reads them anyway.
If anybody tried to send me and email but was told the inbox was too full, I've rectified the problem now.
It's in the high ninties here.. The sea is crystal clear blue The sand is white. I am red. Jealous?
Speak to you soon,
Ian
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