big buckets of fun!

hello again one and all!

firstly can i say a big thankyou to the people that have written and sent their wisdom and their love as it is greatly appreciated!im not sure if everyone is actually recieving this mail either so sorry if anyone gets missed out!well,i hope you're all doing great!
i sit now on a quiet beach on the north east of the beautiful island that is koh pha ngan on my favourite beach of them all! tong nai pan yai
there are two bays and yai and noi (big and small) but this one definately wins hands down!well from the last time i wrote i must say im a hell of a lot more layed back and chilled hell,it took me this long to venture this far along the beach to email!also its more expensive here so i tried to pit it off until i scooted over to the town but alas the rain is keeping us here after giving us yet another excuse to do really not that much at all! ; )
aaaaah yawn sorry where was i yes well we had a little test already and only 4 days into the trip!what a nightmare!we headed for the hualampong train station in bangkok and sat on the floor with about a thousand other people playing guitar and didge and havin a little sing along and waited for the absent train to arrive,well two or three infact as every train was hours late.when it finally arrived we picked our bunks and met some cool nepalese guys from kathmandu and ross got the guitar out and started to have a little jam,this was about 11pm by this point but all of a sudden the group just grew into a full on procession as guitars,pan pipes tambhorines and the likes started to ring out through the cabins!man what a great jam,blues,rock,folk you name it we sang it until the early hours!by far one of the best journeys of my life!im trying to sing a little but my voice sucks!hehe aaah well after we all left the train most of the people walking extra quickly probably from my didge playing : ) we then waited on a street corner for a bus to the port.meanwhile,rossco bless him the decides to have a check of essentials ie passport etc hmmmmm
this revealed a problem!not a small one either as our beloved rossco had indeed lost his passport!noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
not good!now this then meant a whole world of pain for us as no sooner as we'd taken our first glimpse of the sea and first breath of the ocean mist then now we had to turn our sorry arses back around and endure another gruelling time of bag carrying and showerless skin and go straight back to bangkok!nice!well luckily for us (thanks dave!!)we had photocopies of our passports so it wasn't a mojor problem getting a replacement just alot of money and hassle.we decided to head for the island anyway,why not!i have friends here and after a visit the next day we managed to locate the passport by shear miracle!well we did both wish upon two shooting stars the night before and prayed a hell of a lot!the craziest shooting stars ive ever seen bar none!like fire works trailers right across the sky!yes so our last day in bangkok ross changed some money on the bank kiosk on the street and walked off without his passport!man are we lucky to see that again!well,we haven't yet but its there waiting for us so we thought we'd stay and get some beach life for a bit first!its not as expensive here as i'd thought after fours years absence which is all good with me!we have a big group of us here at the bamboo huts and a cool irishman that lives up to his national reputation for sure!the only thing is my willpower is on holiday mode so buckets of sang som have been known for breakfast and mind you our second night ended up into about a forty,fifty hour epic!weeeeeeeeeell we were celebrating the recovery of the passport and as we'd saved the money on travel then we treated ourselves!its a bit dangerous when you can help yourself to beer 24hours a day and just write it down on your bill and pay when you leave!hmmmmm anyway,once again my love goes out to one and all,my apologies for the lack of individual emails but this one message will cane my budget and i feel that ive babbled monotanously (probably spelt wrong!) for way too long and i'm putting nyself to sleep so i'll be off!i think to hussle some on the pool table that they have by the beach!
adios amigos
love,light and a sang som bucket
dimson
xxxxxx