Phuket Hash House Harriers - On On!

I almost forgot! These are some pictures from the Phuket Hash House Harriers. Bob and I joined up with them the very first day that I was there for a Christmas Hash. It started off quite the same as a Trinidad Hash - in fact it looked almost identical!



The Hash was not too difficult, and it took us through some Phuket rubber tree plantations.





After the run everyone drank, of course, and stood around talking shit, until the Hash Master pulled everyone together to do the rituals, the down-downs, and so forth.



Heath takes his favorite seat on the ice block!



The Phuket Hash was kind of strange though, because the 'farang' (foreigners) in Thailand live kind of a strange life. First of all, in Trinidad the Hash is a very mixed sort of group, maybe half-half locals to expats, maybe about half are women, and the people are of all ages, races, backgrounds, colors and nationalities. The Trinidad Hash is a really good reflection of the true rainbow society in Trinidad.

But in Thailand, there are only two groups on the Hash - old white farang dudes, and their young hot Thai wives. Most of the wives don't speak English and they certainly don't go running around in the middle of the day through rubber plantations! Very few women are there to run. In fact, the wives sort of go off into their own group and sit in the shade under a tree (to avoid getting dark, because in Thailand if you have dark skin it means you are poor and work outdoors), or cook all the food. So it was kind of an odd Hash, very polarized, and to tell you the truth, it didn't have a good feel of community and togetherness like it does in Trinidad.

There are quite a few Hashes in Tokyo but I am sorry, it is January and I am not about to go running in this dead cold weather. Hashes are meant to be outdoors, thus, we need the sun! Maybe in the spring I will hook up with the Samurai Hash here.