Hi folks,

I'm counting down to India and a week in Thailand on the way. After working
hard for
the last year or so I'm ready for a spell on the beach eating Thai food and
relaxing
before I start my big stay in India.

SO - Do any of you lovely folks have any good advice for a tabla-playing budget
traveller in Thailand, especially regarding a week in Koh Samui?

BTW If possible, please CC replies to my mobile phone at 09066009111@...
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it'll give me something to read on the train each day...
BUT please note that my phone can't receive HTML, so please send plain text only
and if you can't do that reply to this address.

Thanks in advance and live well...
Love
Shen
Aum Mani Padme Hum

PS You may enjoy this little satire on SARS... (Hey, isn't that a flamenco/tango
band in
Brisbane?)


The World Health Organisation today issued a new warning against
non-essential travel to the entire Western hemisphere following
renewed concerns about the spread of Severe Loss of Perspective Syndrome
(SLOPS). Officials are warning travellers not to visit the UK, the
US, almost all of Western Europe, and Canada, following further outbreaks
of the disease, which has led to mass panic among the media, thousands
of ecstatic children being kept out of school by their credulous and
moronic parents, and increased profits for DIY stores as the idiot
public rush to bulk-buy face masks and boiler suits.

A WHO spokesman said, "You'd be much better off going to
somewhere like Thailand or China, because all you've got to worry about there is
SARS,and let's face it, you're about as likely to die from that as
you are to get kicked to death by a gang of zombie nuns."The SARS
virus has now claimed a staggering 500 lives in only six months, which makes it
considerably more deadly than, say, malaria, which only kills around
3000 people every single day. Malaria, however, mainly effects only
darkies what speak foreign, whereas SARS has made at least one
English person feel a bit iffy for a couple of days, and is therefore
considered much more serious.

The spread of SLOPS has now reached pandemic proportions, with many
high-level politicians seemingly affected by the disease. The rapid
spread of SLOPS has been linked to the end of the war in Iraq and the
need for Western leaders to give the public something to worry about.
Otherwise, they might start asking uncomfortable questions about
domestic issues, and that simply would not do.


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