Island Life

The next few days, at least, will be spend reading books on our local beach, eating at the local restaurants, sleeping, watching Rocker snorkelling out to the coral reefs, thinking about life, wearing floppy hippy trousers and trying to stop my right nork from falling out of my new bikini top.

Island Life is good and I enjoy it and it has often got me to thinking whether I could do it full time. The answer is no. Much as I like the peace and quiet, I like to speak to lots of different people everyday and find myself embroiled in their dramas. I like my own dramas. What would life be like if I never took a bus again and never got to having a conversation with some mental in the process?

I could do life happily without ever having to witness another drunken brawl, but these little mundane snippets are what life is about to me. I like them.

They stay.

Our friends left this morning, just now actually, to go to the other island, Ko Samui for the next leg of their year long journey. I will miss them actually because we have been having fun and it's taken our minds off being robbed on the way here. But if it is meant to be then our paths will cross again and anyway, we can follow their progress on their website that they have set up.

In a minute, after my lovely breakfast of toast and chocolate pancakes, I shall wander casually to the local shop which has a boutique attached. They sell cute jewellry and clothing! Actually, there are two boutiques here on this resort, the Natural resort (not to be confused with Naturist), that sell cute clothes, but I have no idea if they can cloth the more ample curves of Wondy Woman. I'm guessing they can, somehow, though I may be wrong.

So flared cotton trousers it is then all round. And then the beach.

If you are imagining that the quality of this blog may slide slightly due to not actually doing anything exciting for the next few weeks, you will be wrong. On the contrary, I'm usually at my best and most introspective when I have nothing to do but daydream all day.

But don't hold me to that...