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New Years Eve was spent on the beach, it finally stopped raining, and we bought a ridiculous amount of seafood for a ridiculously cheap price.  The evening basically involved barbequeing and eating a lot of yummy food, whilst drinking and looking out to sea.  At midnight we had bought some of our own fireworks and we set them off on the beach.  New Years Day we decided that because the squid we had eaten was so delicously yummy, we bought our own to cook ourselves.  However, they must have done some preparation that we didn’t know about the day before, and for the few days after our culinary adventure, we felt very very ill :-S.  I don’t think we’ll be doing that again.

The Island was fairly good in the end.  It’s covered in a million banana trees, and the ones that are fallen on the floor you can take no problem.  We went for a walk one day and returned with 70.  Yum, free food! It was also easy to wander around the island, along the coast or along the footpaths, so we saw a few coves and volcanic formed beaches which looked pretty cool.  It also got a bit warmer and drier, so we even managed to sunbathe a bit, relaxing and doing nothing was lovely, and definitely appreciated after the slight stresses of moving around a lot.

We then headed back to Hong Kong.  The sleeper train there was mental, not only did they put up a few extra beds at the back, there were people sleeping in every single aisle.  We, unfortunately, were right at the back, and had no chance in hell of ever getting off or going to the toilet or anything like that.  Every space had a person in it, snoring!  Hong Kong was nice, again we got away for a day and went to the island of Lamma.  That was serene, gorgeous sandy beach and sparkling blue sea.  We also went to see a French electro band, who were quite entertaining.

Finally we got on the plane, the last time for a while, and headed for Taiwan!