So, all you can eat buffet's are all the rage at the moment! The one the other night was nice, but the one I had the other night was even better! Had to pay for it though, 2 pounds, but lots of different types of food, plus free movies in one room, live football in another, free internet and free pool so it's all good :-D

We went out again on Friday evening but most people went home early, mostly because of early morning diving. As we say, "Don't drink and dive!" Me and Kristian however had other plans... whilst enjoying our buffet a Swedish girl came and spoke to me and said she worked at a club called 'Castle' and if I went there she would give me a free drink! We had to at least check it out. Got there and there weren't that many people, but there were 5 dance floors so maybe that made it look more empty. Found Louise who gave us some vodka shots, then we got some beers and stayed chatting to her for ages. It got busier as the night went on and we spoke to lots of different people, pretending to be from a different country each time and doing quite well in fooling people! I also didn't buy another drink that night as we got a free bucket and Louise shared her drinks with me all night :-)

On Saturday we went into the main town and I saw a shop advertising 'DAN TRAINING.' I had to enquire and found out they're actually training up an army of people to be just like me... how nice! We found a ps2 room too so all went in and had a Pro Evo competition, Magnus anihilated everyone. I decided to do another dive, and to make it exciting I did a night dive! It was really cool, we saw lots of stuff - pufferfsh, stingrays having sex and a few barracuda. The barracuda swim away, so you have to chase them and when you spot a fish, if you shine a light on it the barracuda spots it and eats it. That was amazing, one time it grabbed it and took it to the surface and another time it bit the fish in half. That evening we had a big night out as everyone had finished their diving, me being the last. I met the others in town, they were all already drunk. I went and got some nice American style pizza and we had a really good, drunken night! Sunday evening turned out to be a good night too, though only really for me, Kristian and Ronan. We all went to the aforementioned all you can eat first. Then I went to Louise's bar, got some more free drinks before heading to another bar once she'd finished work. We stayed for a couple of hours, there was a live band who played a good selection of songs. Then on the way to the club I bumped into Kristian and Ronan and went with them to another bar. It was about 2/3am by this point. It was a very small bar on the roadside. We played Connect 4 for hours, they're obsessed with it here. I played one of the barmaids about 30 times and won about 20! They had these little dogs, I'm not much of a dog fan but these 2 were really cute! At one point they were drinking rum and coke from the same glass! We were getting the boat at 9.30am, so by now had decided not to go to sleep. At about 7am this Irish guy turned up, really drunk and said to the bar that he wanted a tattoo done. Just like that, a tattooist turned up and got to work, tattooing on his arm a pattern and "Koh Tao 2006." Is he gonna regret that or what! We left at about 8.30 and had to go pretty quick to get back and pack and get to the boat.

Sunday was spent all day travelling. Got some sleep on the boat, quite uncomfortable, then had to wait about 2 hours for our bus which turned out to be a minibus which was all a bit of a joke. It was really hot, really cramped, and took longer than it was supposed to despite the speed we seemed to be travelling at. Arrived and checked into the cheapest place we could find quickly for the night before heading out for another big night. We discovered how crazy it really is here, so many weird and sleazy people and places. Me, Seb, Martin and Magnus stayed out longest, the main memory of the night was being follwed/chased up a lifeguard tower on te beach by 3 ladyboys on a moped at 6 in the morning. Yeah...

We slept for a few hours before having to check out and went in search of somewhere new to stay. We've now rented out a house/apartment, it's my most expensive accommodation yet in Thailand but still only 5 pounds a night, not bad for what we've got. It's really big, 2 bedrooms, a living room and kitchen with the best air con and hot showers I've had in months! Me, Magnus and Martin went out round the town that day, they were looking for an inflatable dolphin as part of a previous drunken bet that we searched for for hours and didn't find until on our way back by pure chance. We got back and all went to the supermarket to get supplies - bread, sausages, eggs, cheese, crisps, noodles and other snacks for a massive feast and also stocked up on alcohol to drink at our place as it's really expensive in the bars here. We got a bottle of vodka, 4 bottles of Sangsom and endless amounts of Chang beer. We also rented a DVD player although there's a problem with it so you only get background sounds. We put on some music DVD's in stead and all got drunk, singing, talking, having a good time until about midnight when we went out into town. A crazy night followed, we watched the football, got more drunk, had good times. Got in a bit earlier at about 4/5.

This morning we all slept in really late, which I definately needed after 5/6 massive nights out past 4am each night in a row. Me and Magnus were first up at about 3pm. I tidied up then we watched Anchorman with subtitles, we probably missed out on a fair few of the jokes but it was still good. By the end of the film everyone was awake, so we all got a tuk-tuk to McDonalds! Got a tuk-tuk back, came on here and that's the day gone! It's 9pm now, just about to head to the supermarket on the way home to stock up the same as last night and then repeat last night! Ge drunk at home, go and watch the football in town and see what happens!

My budget spending has changed quite a lot; in India I was spending about half of my daily budget on museum, fort, attraction etc entry fees and now I'm spending about half on alcohol! Don't worry mum and dad...!