Koh Phuket - day 101

We spent the entire day on the beach. It was very sunny and very hot, so we spent quite some time in the water, which was beautifully blue and refreshing. We walked all the way up and down the beach in an attempt to find some of Nat's friends from the South of France who might or might not have been there... anyway, we never actually found them. Since it was our last day on the beach, we stayed as long as we could, and were one of the last one's there when they'd already put away all the other sunbeds and umbrellas. After a good shower, we went back to the pedestrian street and sheltered from the sudden rain in a covered shopping area. The rain was amazing; A LOT of water in a very short time, but it didn't last very long. We had dinner at a little local restaurant that was very busy and turned out to be very cheap, but very good! After dinner, we returned to the Blue Lotus bar where we'd spent the previous night, and sat down at the same table, only this time the couple on the other side turned out to be two Australians on their honeymoon. They were very friendly and we had lots of fun with them cause they had been counting the number of "old-guy-young-thai" couples that had walked down the street since they sat down at the bar. We joined in around number 31... but by the time we left the bar, we had seen more than 100 different "old-guy-young-thai" couples!! An insane number if you think about it! Most of them walk hand in hand, but the weirdest thing of all is that some of these girls are clearly guys (although incredibly sexy ones) and you can't help but wonder whether the tourist at his side knows about this or is just too blind to see the obvious... We spent a good deal of the night staring at a ladyboy that should have been dancing in a FAME musical. He was incredible! Even when the rain started pouring down again, he just kept on dancing and looked like he was having the time of his life. I think he made just about every woman in the street jealous of him, not only due to his dancing skills, but also because of his body! He attracted a very big crowd and several people started giving him money and placing it under a strap attached to his thigh... I guess it was a good night for that ladyboy!

Weather: very warm and sunny