Biker Gangs and Beers!!

After our long drive up through South Africa we flew into Bangkok . It was great to be back in Thailand and as an added bonus some of our mates from home were flying in on their way back from Oz! They landed at 22:30 and were flying out to Koh Sumui the following morning so it was going to be a very brief catch up! As we were staying on the Khoa San road there were plenty of places to while away the hours over a few beers. However after 11:00 no beer could be served, well it could be but we all had to pretend that we were drinking tea!





After a few drinks we decided that we should travel down to Koh Samui to meet up with Bolts, Beast Man and Wuka properly and spend a few days on the beach. Waking up the following morning to go and buy the train tickets was painful, my head was killing me and the thought of more days drinking was not very appetising. After a night train and a good nights sleep things seemed much better and we met back up and enjoyed a few more beers followed by some midnight swimming.

While we were on Koh Sumui we went to see some Thai Boxing. The sport looks really painful and makes normal boxing look as dangerous as knitting. There was a huge amount of respect between the boxers though, who shared the same dressing room and were best friends again after the fight (where they had punched and kicked each other until one of them couldn’t walk!) The best knock out of the night though came courtesy of a young German lad. He was walking to the toilet when a young Thai lady caught his eye, not looking where he was going he walked straight into a metal post. He knocked himself out, got up and tried to walk on to the toilets falling over several time. Don’t worry he was fine after we sat him down and give him some water and ice (ice for his head!)

Deciding to explore the Island we all rented scooters and set off. Given the bikes small size and subsequent lack of power we started a new motor cycle gang, Satan’s Mice (See attached picture of the notorious bike gang! Hmm really scary! - especially Wuka's toilet blue bike!!) On the way round the island Bolts, Tim and Wuka got blessed by a Buddhist monk, very rock and roll guys. This kind of blessing is usually reserved for the pure members of society and not ones sporting love bites (Beast and Wuka!)



Aswell as being in motorbike gangs and doing other ladish things we also had time to be a bit more refined! We had some great seafood meals (and had typically male fun looking at the intestines as they fell out of the cut open fish!) on the beach and let off some Thai style balloons (after spending one of our first nights wondering what on earth the strange glowing spots were in the sky and being convinced - after a few beers - that they were UFO's!)

We had a great time on the Island even though it resembles Blackpool with sun rather than Thailand. The sunshine combined with seeing our mates again though made up for the Blackpoolness - it was really great to see our friends again.

Cheers lads for letting us crash your week in the sun!