The heat is on

Ok left Perth approx 10pm on Monday night despite all the doubting thomas's in Adelaide Tiger air got me to Singapore absolutly fine, ok the seats aren't that comfy (i particularly miss the wrap around ears on the seat to stop my head from falling to my shoulder waking me up every time i fall asleep) and all three flights were 30 mins late depating and arriving but compared to Ryan air back in Europe they were a pleasure to deal with.

Arrived in Singapore approx 3am at the budget terminal and found that despite Changi being the best airport in the world all the carpeted areas and free internet etc are on the airside of customs and you cannot get airside from the budget terminal (which has nothing) to the other terminals.  So i spent a few hours wandering around the public side of the terminals 100% confirming that there are no public internet terminals and nowhere is carpeted (nb i lie there are internet terminals but they are in mcdonalds and i have set a goal not to eat any western takways on this trip so not an option).  Eventually i caught an hour or so of sleep on hard wooden seats in Terminal three (for those of you that know the story these seats were infinantly better than the sleep i had in the Crew train station during my epic overland from Croatia to Dublin - probably cuase i wasn't woken by a cop kicking me) 

About 7am headed into singapore town to kill sometime before my 1pm flight.  The place is a little too sterile for me but it was good to get a bit of natural sunshine and i had a great breakfast downtown.  Unfortuallty i didn't realise that singapore starts late and finshes late when i comes to shopping so i didn't manage to get the jandels etc that i wanted but no worries. 

When i had a actually cheked in and managed to get through customs for my air aisa flight chnagi reminded me why it is so great with free internet machines great shopping etc.

The flight was uneventful with the pilot in typical singapore efficency fasion even appoligising for a five minute late departure due to traffic, any other country in the world would  be stoked to get a plane away inside five muinutes of departure time, but this pilot sounded as if he was about to commit harakiri due to the eternal shame he had brought on himself and singapore for this horrendous delay.

On to Phuket and my first taste of real asia.  Temperature on arrival was about 35 degrees with rediculous humidty it appears that the monsoon seasion defintly hasn't ended with it raining about once every two hours since i arrived.  It was hard time trying to convince the shuttle service to drop me in the middle of beach town i was heading for (Kata beach) as I think they had already started spending the hotel booking commission as soon as they worked out i hadn't booked anywhere.

All well that ends well, i found a nice place with air-con and a swimming pool ten mins walk from the beach then slept for about 12hours to catch up from the lack of any significant last night and not much thre three before that due to trips to the pub in perth.

Will sleep again then make a decsion tomorrow on what to do next but will probably head to Phi phi which is approx 2hrs boat ride away or maybe head to Phuket town or patong beach for a night or two to check the area out properly as i am unlikely to be back this way, may not write for awhile as if it is anything like last time i was in Phi Phi being on an island means satelittle inernet which is slow and very expensive.

I am nervous and excited about what i will find when i get to Phi Phi as it was so nice and lacking in the horrible side of tourisim last time i was there also i have no idea if there will be any sign of all the blood sweat and tears we put in to the island.