Small world

I'm now on Phu Quoc, an amazing island south of Vietnam/Cambodia. Lovely long white beaches, turqoise sea, palm trees, sunshine... I'm sure all of you in the UK and Scandinavia really want to hear about how it is in this lovely tropical paradise :p

There are some resorts and guesthouses along the beach, but not that many. If you walk further along the beach you're completely alone for km after km of white sand. Fantastic! But it looks like they're building quite a lot so I'm sure that a few years from now most of the beach will be developed and resemble Ko Lanta and other islands in Thailand.

I'm staying in a bungalow that's the best accomodation I had during this trip (my parents house excluded); I've got a superclean big room and bathroom and even a kitchen! No AC or hot water, but I don't really need that, and for 8 dollars a night, this is a true bargain.

The first day here when I was walking along the beach I met one of the girls from my diving trip, Karen. I knew she was trying to get to Vietnam after the course, but her flight was cancelled due to the occupation of the airport in Bangkok, and she was travelling through Cambodia instead. Quite lucky I met her on the beach! It's a small world. Very small actually, because today when I went out on a snorkelling trip I met a couple from my home town in Sweden, Uppsala. I thought I recognized the guy, and it turned out that he used to belong to the same student nation as I did, that's why he looked familiar. Oh, and I met Jocke, a Swedish guy I know from London but who now is back in Sweden, when I was waiting for the bus in Khao Lak. Small world indeed.

I'm writing this from a beach bar with lots of Christmas decoration, and also a huge inflated snow man out on the beach. Weird but funny. The other night it looked like the snow man was melting as it started to deflate after the island lost electricity... The electricity comes and goes several times a day, my flash light is one of my favourite possesions at the moment.

It's going to be strange celebrating Christmas here in Vietnam. Reading everyones updates on facebook about christmas parties, glogg and lussebullar (actually got one lussbulle when I was in Huay Yang, one of my parent's neighbours had baked lussebullar) I realize that Christmas actually is only a week away, but it feels very far away here despite all the Christmas decorations.

Time to go, the IT connection here is quite expensive, 30 000 dong/hour. Luckily 30 000 dong is around 1 GBP, so not to bad