Koh Chang - part 1

Our first night in Koh Chang was spent in a Mexican hostel which was lovely but we wanted to find something that was slightly better and cheaper as we'd decided to give our rucksacks a break and spend the rest of our trip here so we went on a search to find somewhere, also we found out that Lonely Beach, or should I say where we got dropped off in the taxi the night before, wasn't as close as we thought to the actual beach so we also went in search on the it! After a 10 min walk we found the beach and after 3 hostel changes we found what we now call home (well for the next couple of weeks anyway!).....

Here's Lonely beach were we spend most of our days unless it's cloudy :)

On our first night out we couldn't believe our luck when we met a major celeb Robert Downey Jr, well not exactly but we thought he looked like him and after a few drinks I told him!

There names were Jesse and Anna from Canada and we spent the evening with them in a local bar listening to live music and drinking the local Thai whiskey! Check me out doing a spot or Thai pole dancing or should I say holding myself up!

The other guy in the photo is Ricky Stone his brother owned the bar and did a fantastic take on Bob Marley but not so good at Oasis :)

This little guy lived at the bar and apparently they were using the tips to school him, he's originally from Cambodia and it seems Koh Chang being close to the boarder do quite a bit of charitable work for these kids - however not sure how much education he was getting collecting glasses, although he was learning how to write and speak English when he took our drink and food orders and the guy said he loved him like a son :)

Look what Dan found just outside the bar.....

After saying goodnight to Jesse and Anna we headed home via the 7/11 which seems to be open 24/7 and bumped into a group people playing and singing outside, Dan just had to show them he could do Wonder Wall (Oasis) properly....

We decided to hire a moped and go check out the other beaches I think we chose the hottest day but at least it didn't rain this time although we did run out of petrol, check out our helmets I managed to persuade Dan he needed to wear one - does anyone remember the American programme Chips?

We found another view point, we still plan to kayak to that Island....

As it was Sunday we tracked down an Irish bar to get ourselves a Sunday roast....