squatter toilets

It was only a matter of time before i started talking about toilets and other unsavory things!( if you don't want to hear my complaining don't read lines 18 to 24)

Basically it all started when we got to our accommodation in koh phangan. We got off the ferry and searched for our free taxi transfer to our 2 apartment rooms we had previously booked. This proved to be harder than expected as everyone knew where it was but where determined to rinse some money out of us! after a bit of searching and alot of angry shouting in thai we got our taxi. Everything was going well until we headed off the main road and through what looked like a rubbish tip. This was the site of our accommodation!! i decided to 'man up' and take it as being a part of travelling. that was until i went into our room. There was a double bed matress lying on the floor with rather alot of stains ranging from blood red to urine yellow! not nice!! we then opened the door to the bathroom when a lizard dropping down right infront of josh! anyway that wasn't too bad. lets just say I would class our bathroom as rather unequipped. There is a cold shower that is so broken no matter how you hold the shower head the ceiling always seems to get the most of the freezing water. There is no sink and no mirror which makes shaving my ever so manly beard pretty difficult if i don't want to completely laccerate my face! And then the bane of my life a squatter toilet! who invented the squatter toilet?! its so completely useless! If anyone doesn't know what it is its basically a ceramic hole that you have to use a pot filled with water to 'flush' it. it can't save water as you need to fill up so many pots of water from the tap to make sure the 'flush' works! its pointless! and if you actually use it to do a number 2 surely towards the end your thigh muscles would be bulging with such raw pain that you would just topple over and cause even more mess resulting in even more water being used!!! its such a bad idea. i wouldn't mind so much if every toilet was a squatter toilet but no the womens toilets are perfectly normal with a seat and a flush and a sink!! i know this as a fact as i have been in there when no one is looking and find using it far more enjoyable but equally as enfuriating!!

Anyway enough of that toilet talk! The people here are very nice and we get on very well with the owners of the accommodation and their kid, John. He is proper clever and frequently beats me at draughts although he does use strange thai rules!! He is also the best at speaking english and is often called over by the staff to translate words. We have also got to know some chilian people who we had a game of volleyball with yeserday and a swedish guy who is............ interesting!! its the full moon party tonight which should be a laugh and i'm sure we'll meet some more interesting people there too!