Well, it seems that we managed to stay in about the nicest hotel in AoNang. As off-season started on the 1st of May, we paid about 1/3 of the normal rates, and only had to walk through the hotel to get to the beach and had the choice of 2 swimming pools.

AoNang beach is about 1/2 hr away from Krabi, and is far, far nicer. It is pretty small, and the main street is only about 1km long, but it is a perfect location to base yourself if you want to go island-hopping.

We were pretty lucky with the weather considering it is the start of rainy season. Of our 5 days down there, it only rained twice on the same day (for about an hour each time). The first time was early in the morning and the second time was after lunch, so we ducked in for a quick Thai massage. The massage lasted 1hr and cost 200B each ($8NZ). It was pretty good, but also pretty weird. Thai massage involves a combination of normal massage and also some weird stretching - I wish I had photos!

Big hello to Jason and Yoila, a couple of Canadians over here in Thailand for a few months of hard-core kick-boxing training. We managed to bump into them quite a few times and went out to play pool one night. These guys are machines, they go for 10km runs each morning (in the Thailand heat!!!) and when they go to Chang Mai to train their day consists of a 6am start, a 10km run, 3-4 hours morning training, 1hr of skipping with a lead-weighted rope, then a couple more hours of training. Hope to catch you guys again some day, send those photos through and we'll put them on the sight.