28 August, 2005

oh man

So I arrived in Thailand, folks here se you like a walking cash machine, as soon as I got off the bus some dud3e grabs me asking me where I want to go, I said Songkhla, so he throws me on the back of this motorbike, I was thinking he was gonna take me to some other bus, coz I knew it wasn't far, after a few minutes I ask him to stop so I can piss, then I ask him what's the plan. He says we are going to ride all the way on the bike, and it's gonna cost me 300 baht, which isn't much, but I was a bit bummed about not being asked what I wanted. Then he took me to a travel agent who starts telling me it'll cost B500 for a bus thing. So i walked away, started makingmy way back to town, then a tuk tuk driver(like a small truck with the back made into seats) pulls up, I think they have this idea that westerners don't walk anywhere, and are always looking to buy something. He then took me to a place, and I found a van going there for B24, on the way back was even cheaper, in this funky disco bus thing they have with crappy thai pop music blaring out. I have no idea what day it is, but I think it's sunday. I stayed one day in Songkhla, got sunburnt(mong), and swam at the beach. After I read that the beach is no good for bathing, seemed fine to me, few jelly fish, but they were cool, the thai's were swimming, the kids were catching and disecting jelly fish.
It was pretty quiet there, so I ended up coming to Ao Nang, where I was last year, they didn't get too hard hit by the tsunami, though thuis place is pretty lame, even lamer without my compadre Marton, all the shop signs are in swedish for the tourists, makes me feel a bit weird, swedish meatballs in all the restaurants.....I dunno, I like sweden, but it's the same as seeing Australian bars everywhere, it's just not right.
The car ride here was something, the driver overtakes on double lines, going up a hill towards a crest, I hold on for my life and he laughs and looks at his friend when we make it through, at other times the car on the other side is forced to pulloff the road to avoid us. Anyway, enough rambling, does anyone read this anyway???

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jeg leser det! Morer meg stort her jeg sitter og skriver på min mindre morsomme hovedoppgave... Hold deg i live! Fortsett å skrive!

1/9/05 08:47  

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