Hello!

I'm back in Bangkok now after spending a week down in the Thai Islands, Koh Phi Phi Island to be exact. It was so beautiful and pretty much all i did was eat, sleep, swim and sunbake! I stayed in a cute little bamboo hut on the beach, which i paid only a couple of dollars for, it was really nice. I was planning on only a few days, but those few days quite easily turned into longer! There's still alot of work going on there from the Tsunami, lots of pictures of before and after. It was quite shocking seeing the difference of course, being there in a restaurant and seeing pictures of what it used to be like.

Koh Phi Phi is also the place they filmed 'The Beach' with Leo DiCaprio so of course i took a boat ride around the islands (there are two Phi Phi Islands; Koh Phi Phi Don where i stayed and Koh Phi Phi Lay where no one is allowed to live, but is the place they did the filming), and stopped at the beach of 'The Beach', if that makes sense! It was really beautiful like all of that area but you can tell that they did alot of photoshopping for the film. So i went snorkelling and swimming all day and then the next day i did yet another hike in my flip-flops(!) with a couple of friends to the other side of the island to a quieter beach. We caught a taxi boat back and on the way the guy was like; "You want to go cliff jumping?" so of course we said yes, that was pretty cool, seen as normally you pay for a separate trip to go and do that! Then he said he had to go and get his fishing net in and would we like to go too and see? So we went and did that and at that point it was sunset so we watched the sunset and a couple of the other girls on the boat wanted to pull the net in (which was 300mtres long) in, so he let them do that. It was pretty awesome to see, there were a few fish and crabs, but the most exciting were two octopus and one shark! Yep, one shark, no kidding!

So now im in Bangkok and i spent the day window shopping (yes mum, i was being very good and didn't buy anything!) and wishing i could buy everything! Tomorrow i fly to Paris in the evening so the next blog will be from both Dave and I! I'm just itching to get to France now! So close!

Sorry to those of you whom i haven't emailed back yet, i will do as soon as i can! Love and miss you all,

Love Katie!
xxx