Drifting in and out of sleep we arrived in Phuket around 8:30. I ignored all the tuk-tuk drivers and headed straight for an internet cafe in order to check the address of the hostel i wanted to stay in. It said it was only a 5 minute walk from the bus station so i decided to walk it. Turns out it was more like 15 which in the heat and with a backpack meant i arrive absolutely dripping with sweat. I booked in and immediately went for a shower and a quick nap.
At around 11 i went down to the communal area where some people were discussing going to the beach. I asked if i could tag along and it turned out it was only one guy trying to convince the others to go so he was keen. We then were joined by a guy who was from spain (well an island of the coast of spain which is a separate state and hated being referred to as spanish) and a girl from manchester. By the time we all assembled we thought we'd catch the 12 o'clock bus. Then another girl wanted to come and she'd just be 5 mins. It was 40 mins without a word so we decided we should just go. The a couple of people wanted food so we went and got that eventually i think we caught the 1:30 bus and got to the beach around 2. He was pretty empty, boiling hot and had some crazy waves, awesome. There were tons of stalls offering surf board rental for 3pounds/hour and i was sorely tempted but the waves were huge and knowing i had no idea how to steer and not wanting to hit anybody i decided to leave it until tomorrow. Instead we met an aussie guy who taught us how to body surf, which is pretty much surfing but using your body as the board. It was pretty cool and helped you work out the timing and by the end we were managing huge surfs, almost as much as the surfers, just using our bodies.
We caught the bus back at around 5 which was the slowest thing i have ever seen, it averaged around 10km an hour as it was going really slowly past the beaches in order to try and pick others up, it was a nightmare and took us almost 1.5hours to get back.
We then all went out for a meal where the girl from manchester told us about a couch surfing party in Patong (the main party area in phuket) I had no idea what i was but it sound pretty cool so i said id go. After trying to find someone to take us there we haggled with a man who said he's take us there and then back at whatever time for 800baht. 16pounds between all of us. It doesn't sound like much but in Bangkok we were doing hour long taxi rides for about 2 pounds, this was only 10km away. It turned out they were all about the same price so we decided to discuss if it was worth it. Turns out a couch surfing party isn't as cool as it sounds. Couch surfing is where you sleep on someones couch when you need somewhere to stay in a new city or whatever. It had been organised through the couch surfing website to have a party on phuket but it sounded to me like it would just be a lot of weird people getting drunk together (anyone who rents their couch out to a stranger is either broke, a hippy or a rapist). We decided not to go and instead stay in and watch the champions league final instead. It was a good choice as a girl returned to the hsotel after having been to it and said it was just a quiet BBQ for an hour...
I tried staying up for the football (it started at 2 here) but got bored and went to get a good nights sleep so i could hit the MMA hard tomorrow morning.
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