Category: Personal

Today is the last day in Koh Phangan. I talked today with one of the seven readers of this blog and he asked me if I was enjoying myself. I asked him if it doesn’t show from what I’m writing that I’m enjoying myself, so he said I’m just reporting what I’m doing. And he’s right.

I loved it here in Koh Phangan. I could stay here many many more days doing the exact same things every day. Namely, nothing. But if that’s the case then it has to stop sometime and that time is tomorrow. As you know, I’m going to Bangkok for 2 days before my flight to England.

Other then that I had an amazing day because I talked to some friends from the near and far past and also got all kinds of good news and all those conversations and good news came one after the other in the past two and a half hours and now I’m so excited that I can’t go to sleep at 3:30am. And as I’m writing this I’m getting even more good news (not directly related to me, but still.) And I still have to pack for tomorrow. It shouldn’t take long, but I really should do it and get some sleep. Good night.

Not much to tell… a regular day here. Went running for the last time. The parties were OK but I didn’t stay long. I’m still aiming to go to sleep late this week and avoid some of the jet lag (it’s 2:30am right now.)

Today I also booked a hotel in Bangkok and all the documents for my upcoming travels this week. And there are a lot of those:

• Taxi ticket to Haad Rin pier.
• Ferry ticket to get to Koh Samui (where the airport is.) The taxi to the airport is not pre-booked.
• Plane ticket to Bangkok.
• Instructions page from the hotel website for the taxi driver to get me to the hotel (the taxi is not pre-booked.)
• My trip’s plane ticket for the flight to the UK.
• Heathrow Express ticket to get to Paddington subway station.
• Train ticket voucher for my trip to Darton (300km north of London.) The voucher needs to be replaced with actual tickets in Paddington station. Then I have to switch 3 trains to get to Darton. I’m pretty sure this is the weakest link of my trip to the UK – I’m so going to get lost/get off at the wrong station/miss a train. I have to be prepared for these.
• Map to show me how to walk the 2km to where Katz is (she’ll probably be waiting for me at the station, but just to be on the safe side…)

I don’t like it when I need so many documents with me but that’s how it is, I guess. Obviously I printed more than one copy of each of them, for backup.

Yesterday I ended up enjoying the party on the beach. There weren’t too many people so there was a lot of room for everyone, good music (it’s pretty much the same tracks every single night) and good atmosphere. I ended up going to sleep at 4:30am.

Today it rained a lot and I was recovering from the party so there isn’t much to tell. I forgot about one funny thing that happened 3 days ago: I got a phone call. I’ve been abroad for almost 2 months and practically… well… forgot how to answer the phone. I held the device in my hand, looking at it and trying to remember which button I should push to answer it. Once I did that it took me a second to realize I’m supposed to say “Halo” as I usually do :) The content of the call isn’t important – it was the army, checking where I’m going to be in the upcoming Passover holiday, as they do every holiday season (nothing to be alarmed about.)

Yesterday I got back from the rather quiet parties on the beach at half past midnight and 30 minutes after that it started pouring rain. Today there wasn’t much activity on the beach, so here I am posting at 1am. How is it that I’m still up and able to write a post at this late hour, you ask? Well, today after eating at around 11am and watching some Friends episodes I decided to go take a nap. That nap turned into a very deep 4 hour sleep. After that I just stayed in my room until I went outside to run.

I’m proud of myself for running four times this week. Each time I ran 15 times the length of Haad Rin beach, which I estimate at around 700 meters (so that’s a total of about 10km.) It takes me almost an hour to run that distance and at the end of it I’m all sweating and my body feels extremely hot. So it’s a good workout :) Today after the workout I got a Thai massage since I won’t be running tomorrow. I only have one more time to run (on Sunday) and the next workout after that will be after the 27th in the UK. I hope I’ll manage to run there at least two times a week until I go back home and start going to the gym again.

I still don’t feel tired. Maybe I’ll go down to the beach and see if things picked up there. I guess it’s good I’m up late – maybe it’ll soften the jet lag I’m about to experience in a week.

I’m just blogging so that I’ll have an entry for each day. This was a regular day of eating, napping, reading and running. It turns out that indeed there was a Half Moon party yesterday but it was shut down early by the police (apparently they didn’t “get paid” properly.) I’m going to go now and see if anything is happening on the beach. Good night.

p.s.

Ordering train tickets online for the UK is the worst online booking experience I’ve had in a while. I’ll check how much it costs to fly just because of the headache this is causing me.

Today it was sunny most of the day but it rained for a little while as well. I got my flight ticket to Bangkok finalized to the evening of the 24th and already started looking for hotels there. I’m also looking at pre-booking train tickets for the UK because it saves a ton of money. I didn’t run today, so this was a true day of rest. Today is the Half Moon party but I don’t think it eventually happened because I didn’t see any taxis going there. I wouldn’t have gone anyway – I heard it’s not something to be excited about.

Today was almost exactly the same like yesterday with the exception that I treated myself to a foot massage after running. As expected, it was great :)

I decided to get a flight ticket to Bangkok on the 24th in the evening, which will leave me a day (or a day and a half if I’m up to it) to see what Bangkok is like. From what I heard – one day is enough. Until then I think I’m going to stay right here. I enjoy doing nothing and I’m happy that I can also keep in shape, something that is also important to me.

Today there was a hint of a party on the beach, but it’s not really coming together yet. Probably in the next few days people will start dancing to the music (it’s really sad when no one jumps the fire skipping rope.)

I’ve started to think about my time in the UK. The first thing I’ll do is go to meet my ever-traveling friend, Katz, in Yorkshire. I’ll be with her at least until her birthday, which is April 5th. That’s also the date of the first Prodigy show I’m going to. But there’s still time to think about all that. I’ll just keep on doing nothing for now.

Normal day – eating, napping, reading, running. Very tired now. Tomorrow I might go for a foot massage. My feet are hurting a little from the running and it will be a good way to pass an hour or so :)

It’s still pretty cloudy and currently there are no parties at nights on the beach (despite the “there’s always a party on the beach at night” rumor you may have heard.)

The power was back on again at about 9am this morning in Koh Samui. Two hours after that I was on a taxi to the boat back to Koh Phangan. I got my resort room just before it started raining like crazy for quite a long time. There isn’t much to do here in the rain but to sit in restaurants and watch TV/movies. Which is great :) So I booked 5 nights in the resort so that means I’m staying here at least until March 20th.

Here are some pictures from Koh Samui just before I left and a video of the rain in Koh Phangan: