Blue Wind Bakery and Resort
Travel Blogs from Ko Tao
The sun is shining, the weather is sweet
We caught a taxi to the airport, a flight to Bangkok, the subway to Bangkok train station, the train to Chumpion, a bus to the port, and finally, a boat to Koh Tao. We definitely put the effort in! Especially with the 9 hour wait in Bangkok train station – we kept ourselves amused with a game George had downloaded onto his iPad where you had …
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is...
You (Mariah Carey)
I know i'm used to celebrating christmas without my family for 8 years now, but …
Scooting around Ko Tao
Our journey from Ko Samui to Ko Tao was much easier than the one from the mainland to the islands! We set off from our bungalow and caught a high speed catamaran via Ko Pha Ngan to Ko Tao which is about 45km North of our start point in the Gulf of Thailand. To be honest we weren't too upset to be leaving!
As ever when we …
Home from Home...
Rach-So after Lucy getting some pep talks on the boat and deciding on Big Blue Diving off we went to check in, we loved Ko Tao straight away, we just got a good feeling about it! and in the truck on the way we bumped into Jay again. So we sat down in Big Blue and Dan (Dive Instructor) came over to have a chat with us and Lucy decided to …
The scuba training capital...but fun diving???
Day 13 – Monday 17 May 2010
Last day in Phi Phi…we sleep in, grab brekkie, have a backgammon marathon and hit the pier at 15:30 for the ferry to Krabi. It's a **** ferry, seats rigid and small. 2 hrs to Krabi, Krabi has a **** pier too. We get shepherded off the boat onto a waiting minivan, which drives us about 10 min to a …