Sekeping Text: May 2015

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the late post but I have been busy with assignments and events lately. Havent been travelling either but today since I have some free time, I would like to share my Europe travels from last year.

So here goes, a little throw back on Brighton England. Brighton is a pretty funky town. Loads of young people and cute cafes.

How to get there;
I am lucky to have families in England so I basically stayed in Haywards Heath, which is only about 20 minutes to Brighton and about 45-50 minutes to London by train. If you are travelling then I suggest booking a hotel down in Brighton or London if you could.

Travel mode; Train (£10 peak hours, £6-7 off peak hours )

What to do:

Walk along till the end of Brighton Pier (in Summer the sea is beautiful)
Must eat, fish and chips, by the sea. (life couldn't be more beautiful than that)
If you walk far enough, you might just bump into their nudist beach (I did, with my niece, not a good thing though with kids)
Go to the toy museum (entrance fee of £3)
Try and find cool walls with painting around town
Shop when its summer sale
Hang around the beach
Have some cotton candy
Hop on the old train in Brighton

What you need:

Sunscreen (gets really hot in summer)
Sunglasses
Comfy shoes
Big appetite
Camera (for pretty amazing architecture)
Light clothes

If you are from England and wants a change of place other than Camden, London. Then Brighton should be on your list. It is as funky and beautiful.

If you are just travelling and stopping by, then enjoy the beach and the breeze!

Have a good day! Brighton is worth the money!

xxx

Amberstories

Train station

Brighton

Walking by the pier

Cotton candy and ice cream

Brighton eye

Old train in Brighton

Nudist beach. had to take a picture

Fish and chips by the sea

Cool hair braiding by the street

Bright and colourful buildings

Very cute

My favourite street

Square ready

Fresh flowers?

Toy museum

My little niece day out

Just thinking

Buying finger puppets. my sister and niece

Brighton mall

Tea anyone

Nice cafe ey?

Hello my lovelies,

Its been a while since I last posted anything about travel and adventures. That is because I have a really bad internet connection and recently traveled to Hatyai for Koh Phangan, Thailand.

It was a fun trip and tiring. Lets get to it and have fun reading!

TRAVEL METHODS;

Since this was an inpromtu travel, it was expensive to travel by air and it was a public holiday. My friends and I managed to grab a mini van from Penang to Hatyai with the price of RM35.

It took us 5hours to arrive Hatyai due to heavy traffic at the border. It was tiring as well as we do not have enough leg room in the van. Departing around 4pm we manage to reach Thailand, hungry and exhausted at 0900pm (Malaysian time)

Due to public holiday travels, we failed to grab the bus to Surat Thani for ferry to Koh Phangan. But instead got a van and ferry straight to Koh Phangan the next day for 1200TBH.

As for return, we manage to grab tickets from Koh Phangan straight to Penang but with alot of stops and tuk-tuk adventures and van changing. We travel by water from Koh Phangan to Surat Thani and then by land to Hatyai back to Penang. It costs us the same price of 1200TBH.

In general;

Penang-Hatyai-Don Sak Pier- Koh Phangan

Koh Phangan- Surat Thani- Hat Yai- Penang

HATYAI

Upon arriving Hatyai, we manage to grab a tuk-tuk (taxi in Thailand) and head for our hostel. Stayed in Hatyai Backpacker Hostel and is really a beautiful and clean one.

Where to stay; Hatyai Backpacker Hostel (RM40 per night)

What to do;

Eat the street food especially their fried stick food and fried chicken served with sticky rice. Must try also include Pad Thai and fried egg with muscles.
Shop, there is so many stalls selling everything from clothes to shoes and toys
Walk along their night market (open up till 0300am)

Since I was only in Hatyai for a night this was all I could come up with.

We left for Koh Phangan at 0630am as it takes about 20minutes from our hostel to the bus station.

KOH PHANGAN

As the travel methods got us slightly crazy, we manage to arrive Koh Phangan at 1600hrs (Thailand time)

We manage to book our hostel the night before and arrived safely at Koh Phangan.

However, there are different places to stay in Koh Phangan, if you are heading out to where the Full Moon party, like us, I suggest Haadrin because it only takes 5 minutes or so (depending on the area around Haadrin) to the beach.

How to get to Haadrin: From the pier, get the tuk-tuk (100TBH). It takes 30-40minutes to Haadrin (depending on how many stops the tuk-tuk takes)

Where to stay: We stayed at Gallery Domitory (very close by to the beach and everything) for 55TBH per night.

It could be cheaper but due to late booking price are hiked up. If its an early booking you could stay at a much better place with cheaper price too.

What to do:

Hang out by Haadrin Beach and soak up the sun
Go to the Full Moon party, atleast once in your life so you say you actually did it
Enjoy the music and tourist
Eat good Thai food
Get a foot and full body massage (especially after math of partying)
Drink their bucket drinks. (At least once)
Get to know the people
Have lots of fun
Buy atleast something from the fullmoon party
Bikini shopping (really cheap, 250TBH and you can still bargain)
Walk around Haadrin and explore the place. (Its like a circle, you always end up where you started)
Rent a motor bike if you are up for adventure and staying quite far from Haadrin beach