Cookies Hotel Ko Chang

... called from another part of the island to say that they couldn't get back. We set out, Scott and Jack in one, Sherri with Luke and Ritchie with his Dad in another. Despite choppy seas we soon made beach-fall on the island and had a poke around but there wasn't actually much to do and a cloud was moving between us and the shore, reducing visibility until we could no longer see home. With the waves even ...

... trip to four smaller islands where I went snorkelling and Ang watched!!! Felt a bit green on the way back but Ang was at the front of the boat doing a kate Winslett from Titanic(a bit embarrasing but she loved it!!!)
Today it has been a torential rain storm, bearing in mind what is going on further south I think we have got away lightly.
Tomorrow we head back to Bangkok then to a seaside resort in Hu Huin although I think the weather is here to stay for a few more days.

... here was bigger and it was a good swim through the coral. Both dives were very clear. My only problem was that I got blisters on the top of my toes from the fins. I guess my feet are use to flip flops. Well I've been here a week relaxing I think it's time I moved on to Trat, last stop before Cambodia.

... 2,000 Baht/day.



Passenger boat

The first boat departs at 0800 hours and from Koh larn to Pattaya city at 0800 hours. It operates every two hours with traveling time of 45 ...

... station to the 'market' (actually, his mate's guest house, but we didn't want to stay there so we just walked to one we'd pencilled in from the Lonely Planet). Ended up staying at Guy Guesthouse (200B, fan, toilet - no tp, no sheets), which is fairly clean, except for the floors and has friendly staff and they organise onward travel to pretty much anywhere. Only problem is that the walls are paper thin, and they have a wnidow into ...

... como entretanto soubemos que os nossos amigos Chris e Beni am estar em Siem Reap por essa altura mudámos de planos e fomos directamente para ai. CZ: Kdyz jsme se nabazili Bankoku, vyrazili jsme na jeste jeden (a posledni) ostrov na vychodnim pobrezi Thajska. Po pravde receno uz nas nicim neprekvapil. Krasne plaze, dzungle a pohodicka, takze jsme si to pekne uzivali, pozorovali zapady slunce a relaxovali. Jeden den jsme si pujcili motorku a ...

... up early and make our way back to Bangkok. Bryn and Rosie checked into a nice hotel by the river, Lucy and I found a cheap(ish) hotel which was pretty **** near Patpong, the redlight district. There was porn on most channels on the TV. We met up with them again for a few drinks in Patpong which was just full of old couples and not early as good as we thought. Said goodbye to them and felt pretty glad we weren't getting on a 17 hour flight to rainy England (sorry guys!)

... we see are the numerous mountains and lush forests! They showed us a few different rooms (BEAUTIFUL!!), and when we decided to stay and check-in, they immediately brought us each a tray with grape juice and a cold facecloth! Our room is spectacular! It's all hard-wood and we have a king size bed with four big posts! We have a TV, DVD player (and we can get as many dvd's from the front desk as we want for free!), and the bathroom is partially open to the outside....so it's like ...

... and offered me some. I politely declined … no, really I did; it’s not my scene jellybean … and so he sat back in a sweet smelling blue cloud and got ‘comfortably numb’. I tried to leave at one point as it was late and everyone else had vacated the premises but he persuaded me to stay with a free beer.

I know, I know, I’m so easy.

What the hell; we were having a great time together and although I crawled into bed much later than I ...

... begin the arduous trek back towards civilization. We spent a couple of evenings eating at local restaurants and washing down the delicious local fare with inordinate amounts of chilled and tasty Singha beer. We had been warned to stay away from the notorious Beer Chang (a Thai mainstay) due to the rumour that it caused particularly vicious hangovers and frequent memory loss!! Where was I? Oh yes... We had intended to go to Ko Samet but had read, and been ...