In between sun bathing, drinking copious amounts of pinacolada and buying various trinkets and summer dresses we thought a nice message or even a pedicure would be just what we all needed. On this day I really should have followed the others and gone for the gentle and relaxing treatments, however due to my very spontaneous nature i steered towards a day of painful and tear jerking procedures. First off there was the 'bikini wax', something id never had done and was under some sought of allusion that the Thai's are experts and do the best waxing. Well let me tell you, they are shite! This is how its goes....Me lying spread eagle on a mattress, the curtain only going part way around so practically anyone can see me, if they pop their head a little further to the right! Four Thai women staring down at me, as if they were about to preform some sort of medical procedure, all giggling and prodding my tattoo and belly button piercing (very fascinated with me, they were), a traumatic and agonising application of cold...yes fucking 'COLD' wax to my groin that had me writhing and calling in pain to poor Maddy who was on the other side of the curtain wandering what the fuck was going on, whilst trying to get some sense out of me. Jesus wept man...they almost finished me off. After they decided to rip my skin with some bits of clothe, they were then at me with tweezers! Finally they stopped, the torture had ended and they all looked very pleased with themselves...me i was shaking like a leaf and vowed never to go through that horrific business again.

Didn't stop there though....being some sought of sadomasochist i decide more pain was required and embark on a new tattoo. Well Maddy wanted one and I fancied a Bamboo tattoo so i went for it. AAAhhhh.....much more painful than a machine tattoo, more so as it was on my wrist. That done and whilst I'm waiting for Maddy to finish and we're all having a beer (yes, nice and relaxed atmos in Asia, very accommodating and very lay ed back attitude towards most vices). I notice one of the tattooists has an interesting bar piercing through his ear. Feeling somewhat bored and in need of another piercing anyway i decide to go for that too....and sure enough is was pretty painful, as he had to drive the needle through by hand. Having a little difficulty with the top part of my ear, he twisted and pushed till it broke through, which left my eyes watering, my hands shaking and the girls looking totally horrified.