21 hours on three buses!
Trip Start
Jun 11, 2008
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Phuket,
Thailand
Friday, September 19, 2008
Then we got to our guesthouse called "Hillside". It's just on the outskirts of the bay area. About a 10 minute walk to the beach and only 5 minutes to all the bars and restaurants. This was perfect because we avoided all the noise.
Now the guesthouse itself - amazing! It's only been open 2 months, but it is not a hostel or a guesthouse, it is more like a hotel. I think it was on Hostelworld because it is new and they need to generate some early custom. Thing is, we got a deal on this and are only paying THB 300 a night (about £5), but listen to what we got in the room. Hot shower, balcony, air con, kettle, fridge, cable tv, safe, DVD player in room, free DVD rental, free internet and it had a huge bed in a massive room! I would expect to pay at least THB 1800 for this, and there was also a swimming pool! Everything is really clean as well, because it's new, and there's is daily maid service. These are all luxuries for a backpacker - we might live here!
Anyway, as we hadn't eaten all day, we got showered and changed and went for a walk into the town. We found a curry house and basically stuffed ourselves stupid! As we had a fridge, we went to the 7-11 to grab some beers to stock it up - well, it's only polite to!
The tiredness was starting to kick in so we went back to the palatial room and borrowed the DVD "21" to watch. Lorna then fell asleep whilst I watched "Die Hard" on tv, followed by the Ryder Cup.
Watching the golf, I realised that the American supporters were up to their usual tricks - cheering if Europe made a mistake and staying deathly silent when Europe played a good shot! I'm all for supporting your own team - but there's this word called "respect" which is obviously missing from the American sporting dictionary!
Rant over....I went to sleep...
