The town full of crabs
Trip Start
Jun 11, 2008
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Trip End
May 14, 2009
Krabi,
Thailand
Sunday, September 28, 2008
This was still enough time for me to have a ladyboy moment. I went to the toilets to get changed about 1pm. As I was in mid-cloth, a young lady came out of the toilet cubicle! As I examined her body, thoroughly, I realised that she was definitely female - strange freak, I just smiled and continued. As I walked out of the toilets something struck me as wrong - there was a sign next to another door saying "Mens"! Which meant only one thing - I was in the women's toilets half naked! No doubt that she must have thought that I was a chick with dick!! We left the poolside in a swift hurry!
We boarded our ferry at about 13:45 and was surprised how packed it was
Aonang Grand Inn Bedroom
. If this thing sunk, we were gonna's! It was a 90 minute survival run, but we made it - just!At the port in Krabi, every bl**dy taxi driver tries to rob you blind. The port price for a taxi to Aonang Bay was 400 Baht. We refused to pay this and went out onto the street to see what we could get. A guy offered us his taxi for 300 Baht after some bartering, but we still weren't convinced. We then got chatting to a girl called Dee from Ireland who was also going to Aonang. We went to get in the taxi but it suddenly went up to 400 Baht because there was 3 of us. Now, we were happy to pay 400 Baht for three, but not to this robbing git! I know that's a swear word, but I am sick to death of these Asians trying to scam me everywhere I go!! If there is one thing I hate about being in Asia is these scamming gits who don't give a toss about their country, all they want to do is rip you off!! And you don't get any protection from it!!
Anyway we found a guy who would take us in an air con minivan for a better price and Dee made a point of going up to the taxi guy and ramming it up his ar*e!! Very funny. Good thing was, when we left, this taxi driver didn't have anyone else to take because he had spent to long trying to rob us - ooooh the satisfaction!!
We finally got to our digs, the Aonang Grand Inn - trust me, the word Grand is completely out of context
1-Aonang Grand Inn Bedroom
. However, it will do the job for two nights whilst we sort out our transfer to Langkawi. It's strange to think that in 13 days we will be in New Zealand - nice!We took a walk down the beach and then ended up at Sally O'Mally's Irish bar. We had Penang curry & green curry and watched the Merseyside derby with a pint of Chang.
After this, we actually ended up in another Irish bar called The Irish Rover. Here, I moved onto pints of Tiger and watched the Man Utd - Bolton game. Rob Stiles is a complete nob-head, but never mind.
We bumped into Dee in here and had a quick drink with her. She has already been to South America so she passed on some tips. As she was heading to Chiang Mai & Laos, we passed on a few tips as well. I suppose this is where meeting other travellers is an advantage!
Looking forward to Langkawi on Monday.
