Well, New Year on Koh Pha Ngan was an interesting experience. You’ve got to see it once I suppose!
For those who haven’t experienced Thai beach parties, the hard liquor is served in a rather efficient manner, quantity rather than sophistication being the priority! So a few of these…

… fairly quickly became a few of these…

There were a few interesting characters making use of the abundant sanitation facilities…

As the night wore on some poor souls just couldn’t take the pace…

We threw in the towel rather tamely around 3am, but having been out till 8am the night before, we’d had enough of beach partying. It won’t go down in history as the greatest new year ever, but it would be unfair to say I didn’t have fun.

Jolly glad to hear it. Sad to see that lots of daft Europeans still wear jeans, shirts and smart shoes to a beach…wouldn’t like to be drying his leather jacket after he’s been for a swim!