Xtreme Gap Year Blog

This just in from the clever people at ISTRAW

They have just launched a new Ultra filtration Straw targeting Armed Forces, Government Agencies, Aid Agencies and the Travel Market.

The new ISTRAW is the only portable drinking straw that filtrates 99.99% of Virus and Bacteria without the use of iodine now banned in the EU and expected to be banned globally for cleaning water.

The new ISTRAW purifies upto 1000 litres making the product also very cost effective as well as environmentally strong due to the non use of plastic bottles of water, which are non bio-gradable.

You can get yours at the ISTRAW website

Here is another reason to behave yourself on your Thailand Gap Year, Santisuk, the pig tailed Macaque Monkey, Thailand’s latest top law enforcer will be out to bust you.

For reasons no sane individual will ever understand, monkeys are being uses by the Thailand authorities to keep the population in check.

Fear not though, if you do find your the wrong side of the hairy long arm of the law, we have been told you can bribe your way out of a stint in the slammer with a bunch of bananas.

According to the telegraph ”

The precinct’s Police Corporal Yutthapol Phromdao Yutthapol takes Santisuk with him on patrol every day.

He said compared to other checkpoints, where officers had to deal with annoyed motorists, his was a ‘happy place’.”

Only in Thailand…