Luckily I found this forum before going to Phuket after many years of being married (twice - yea I know, stupid eh ....5555) and I managed to get heaps of info from the BM's of the day.
Arrived and had booked the Salathai Hotel for a month, had a quick nap, showered, shaved and went out around 9.00pm and directly opposite was the old Power Bar which i ventured into and low and behold after a fair few beers this beautiful Thai girl, who had been hanging all over me, finally talked me into bar fineing her - might add it wasn't real hard to do by then ....555555
Anyway that was that night sown up as it were and I didn't get to the MTB until the next night where I met a fare few BM's, Mai Chob being one of many and I believe Mav might have been there as well, but I'm terrible at names ...5555
Well for the first 2 weeks I sh*gged myself silly and pretty well burnt myself out I can tell you, but I loved every minute of it .....whaaaaaaa
Then I actually talked to my g/f in the MTB who spent most of the time I was there in the first 2 weeks hiding out around the place, I had noticed her but she never mingled very much - anyway to cut a long story short (thank god I hear) she spent the last 2 weeks with me and has been my g/f for over 3 1/2 years now and although I dont always get over that frequently it seems to work .....!!!!!!!
I must say that knocking around wth the BM's, meeting Nicke and Ead and finally meeting Nee was one of the best things that happened to me - and I have to thank the forum for that ................