Singapore Sling

The Famous Singapore Sling

So I left Aoife in Phi Phi and flew off to Singapore….I was feeling pretty knackered after my time on Phi Phi so took a taxi from the aiport to the hostel that I booked which I have to say was one of the worst ones I stayed in for the price I was paying.  Unfortunately I didn’t manage to enjoy Singapore that much as I was tired the whole time.  I did a night flight from Krabi to Singapore so was pretty shattered and unfortunately there was a girl in the room who insisted on sleeping with the window open – which in the middle of Singapore is kinda noisy (we had air con on too!) so I was pretty damn tired the whole entire time. 

Singapore wasn’t all bad though!  The location was pretty good and central and near to a metro so I did get out to explore.  I attempted to go to Little India one evening and it really was like being back in Delhi.  The streets were heaving but so much so I didn’t have the energy to deal with it so didn’t spend long exploring unfortunately.

I managed to get to the main shopping area (of course!) but it was quite interesting as its all enormous shopping malls which are linked under ground to each other and I did do a fair bit of walking about the city sightseeing and I managed a visit to the Raffles Hotel for the traditional Singapore sling!  Totally overpriced but a lovely cocktail nonetheless.  It was amusing that nearly everybody who went into the bar ordered the same thing and were all doing the touristy thing like me, very few looked like they were actually staying in the hotel itself!

Me in Raffles

What else can I tell you about Singapore?  Not a huge amount, it was VERY hot and humid, it was very clean and it seemed ok but I was so tired the whole time I didn’t enjoy myself.  I didn’t even make it on a night safari at the zoo!  Would I go back? Yes! But maybe with someone else, and maybe when I am less tired! Once again it was time to move on to the next adventure- Perth, Australia….on another overnight flight!

The last of S.E. Asia - Krabi and Koh Phi Phi

So my time in Perth is coming to an end and I’m about to pack everything I own into a small bag again and say bye bye WA…..hello the rest of Australia!

I know I haven’t written anything for months, and of course I have forgotten lots of details but I thought I would take this opportunity to reflect on the last 10 months as I’ve only told you about up until the start of January this year!  So to remind you – I left you in Koh Tao and my next stop was Krabi with Aoife. 

Koh Tao had been a fantastic place to spend a week or so getting into the real party spirit of Thailand and also a nice change for having to meet people all the time to go out with – I had ready made party friends right there! 

However, after my break on antibiotics and then the partying to make up for it – I needed another rest!  So off to Krabi Town Aiofe and I headed.  After a long long boat ride back to Koh Samui, and another overnight stay (a pretty mild night apart from Aiofe attempting to hustle the thai kids hustling tourists to play connect 4 against them for money),we headed off to the airport and said bye bye to Amanda at Koh Samui Airport where she headed off to Kuala Lumpar and Aiofe and I jumped on a plan to Krabi.

We arrived in Krabi and headed for the cheapest transport transfer option of a minibus which will drop you at your hotel or at the beach for boats which take you to another amazing beach resort.  Aoife had to get on a plane herself the next day to head also to Kuala Lumpar so that she could extend her thai visa for another 30 days by flying back into Thailand.   That was our main reason for stopping in Krabi on our way to Phi Phi as the town itself isn’t all that great.  We had already booked ourselves in to a hotel in the middle of town and gave the information to the minibus people and headed off.  As usual there was the normal confusion at one end of whether we should be getting off or not as they started to unload our bags outside this shop in town.  EVENTUALLY it became apparent that they wanted to transfer us and our bags into the back of a pickup truck to transfer us to our hotel – what style! This was another one which didn’t have even bench seats in the back – it was just the back of the truck and we ended up sitting on top of our backpacks and hanging on for dear life.  I was kind of used to it by then having spent a good month or so travelling around Asia by that point.

We finally arrived at our hotel and it wasn’t all bad – it had air con, comfy beds and a proper bathroom and tv albeit a bit tatty around the edges.  It was advertised with a bar/nightclub as well……..I peeked in one night and it was full of the locals and some dodgy thai’s singing – we decided not to venture in for a drink – it looked quite shabby and dodgy!  So what was Krabi town like? Well a bit boring really.  I even attempted to find somewhere to get a pedicure and found it impossible – nearly unheard of in most of the places I had been to in Asia . Aiofe and I decided to use it as downtime to recover before heading to Phi Phi fully recovered to attempt scuba diving.  Aiofe headed off for her flight the next day and I was left to my own devices…….I explored the town and found it slightly lacking!  The best bit about it was going to the night market with Aiofe the evening we arrived for dinner.  MEAT ON A STICK GALORE!  Full of stalls cooking fresh food on order and loads of locals sitting there eating away.  I ended up filling my time sleeping in and sitting in cafes write to all you lot!  She arrived back from KL and we headed off the next day on our adventure to Phi Phi Island! 

So first off – yes – I do think that Phi Phi is possibly over touristy, yes – I do think that 10 years ago it was probably so much better…..BUT! I loved it!  You arrive at the harbour which is pretty basic apart from a very long pier leading you out to the boats.  Get off and are confronted with loads of touts either trying to get you to go to that hotel or to meet you as you have pre-booked. 

We had decided to pre-book somewhere for just the first two nights after our experience in Koh Tao!  It was still pretty soon after new years so it was massively busy everywhere and still high season prices.  Having looked around beforehand some of the prices were ridiculously high and it was really hard to find anything under 2000baht – that’s about £40 so quite expensive for Thailand.  A lot of places were much much higher than that.  Whilst in Krabi Town I had done loads of research on all the places recommended in Lonely Planet and on other places on the internet and it was hard to find anywhere and when you called them they didn’t speak enough English if they even answered the phone!

I ended up getting a local agent to book us a room in a place called Uphill Cottage.  It had an en-suite inside bathroom with hot water and air con! Bliss but expensive at 1600 bath a night – 800 each – that’s a whole £15 a night each!  It definitely blew my budget and I became an official flashpacker, but it was well worth the money!!!

So we found our guide on the pier at the harbour and he led us into the start of the town and told us to wait for him there as he went off to round up more people he was “picking up”.  After dragging a few more similarly bemused looking tourists over he started loading our packs onto what can only be described as a large trolley.  On and on they went and we were told to follow him. 

Phi Phi has no roads, no cars and very very very few motorbikes.  The walkways are fairly small lined with shops and restaurants and plenty of tourists and loads of locals on pushbikes. (at the end we weren’t sure what was worse – motorbikes that you could hear or pushbikes that you couldn’t!).  

It’s a real assault to the senses arriving and following the man with your bag quickly down loads of little streets and trying to remember which way you are going and taking in everything that’s going on around you.  We started dropping people off at different places along the way and me and Aiofe kept going.  I started to think..whoops have we made the wrong choice….we are heading so far away from everything……but no we certainly hadn’t!  We finally ended up at the end of the path at the bottom of a hill where the reception was in a little hut.  We got checked in and then hiked our way up the steps to our “Uphill Cottage”. 

We were tucked away in the corner and had no view to speak of from our terrace with two little chairs out the front.  Our room was one of the best we had stayed in – very comfy beds and the place looked practically new!  Whilst we were there we had cleaning every day (or would have done if we had gotten out of bed early enough!) and it was just so comfy and – quiet – especially at night.  Well apart from the monkeys that ran across the roof sometimes!  The thing was – that long walk that made us think we were away from everything was great – most of the accommodation was really close to all the bars and the night went on really late sometimes so an early night was impossible in some areas.  We were only an extra 5 minutes walk in reality so it was well worth it for a bit of peace and quiet sometimes!  Believe me, it did happen on our 10 night stay in Phi Phi.

  

The plan was to head out the next day to find somewhere else to stay that was cheaper…..never as easy as it sounds.  We did find quite a few places, but they were so shabby and horrible and dirty compared to where we were we couldn’t help but carry on and shell out paying for Uphill Cottage and managed to negotiate a discount to 1500 a night!

Phi Phi is a small place especially the area we stayed in – Ton Sai Bay, there are two main beaches, and neither are that amazing to swim in. One side where the harbour is, is full of boats (of course) and the other side has a beautiful view but the sea is very shallow for ages out and isn’t very clear.  The main town is just shops and tour companies and restaurants and bars. 

Aoife and I spent our time firstly focussing on sorting out something for a scuba diving course.  We spent a fair while going around the different companies asking them what the deal was.  All of them offered the same thing so it was working out which one we liked.  We ended up going to one where my brother-in- law knows someone.  A girl he met when travelling around the world.  She was working in a scuba diving place in Phi Phi.

Well we went there and got our books and spent all night studying.  We passed our first exam the next day and headed out to try the equipment just off the beach.  We struggled our way into a wetsuits and had to poke a hose down them to soak us through before we went outside in them and boiled.  It was only a few minutes walk from the scuba place to the beach but it felt like hours – it was well over 30c in the wetsuits and the tanks weighed a lot!  We had to get into the water and start practicing all different manoeuvres.  Unfortunately it was at this point I discovered that scuba diving is not for me L.  I couldn’t control myself in the water with the tank and the flippers and really didn’t like it.  I attempted to put my head under the water to use the regulater and mask and didn’t like that either – although I did get to see a few fishes for a few seconds!  I ended up having to get out of the sea and trek back to change and wait for Aoife.  I was disappointed that I didn’t like it but I just couldn’t do it. 

Aoife came back and had been having great fun learning and had gotton all the manoeuvres right so she could go and do her final exam that evening and then go on the boat the next day.  She went out diving and successfully did her padi!  We watched the video in the place and it was amazing.  So……..it had been about a week since we had left Koh Tao and it was time to head to some bars!

What can I tell you about the rest of our time in Phi Phi?  Of course there was plenty of eating and drinking.  The food was fantastic – a mixture of our meat on a stick and various other mysterious things from the stalls on the streets, to little restaurants serving fantastic thai dishes to a good ole burger (its nice to mix it up a bit!).  We discovered a rooftop Banana Bar

 Which became a firm favourite of ours with amazing Magaritas for less than £3!  Very cute and nice bar staff and a good vibe.  It was only open until 12 or so though so after that it was time to head down to the beach to another bar, the name escapes me at the moment, which is where we usually hung out to finish off the night.  There were trips to other bars, trailing down the beach, trips to another bar in the centre, the Regae Bar in particular which is where Lou and Yazz met all those years ago, and we watching 3 year old boys thai boxing.  Chris, who I met in Pai ended up in Phi Phi at the same time as us and we ended up meeting up with him for a drink too. 

 

 Of course, however, a trip to Phi Phi cannot be complete without a trip to Maya Beach.  It’s a cliché but it had to be done.  We chose to go out on one of the smaller boats- a traditional thai boat.  I think there was about 10 of us in it, plus our slightly dodgy looking captain.  We sailed out and visited lots of different bays and lagoons on the way to Maya Beach and then when we arrived we could just explore for a bit.  Its fairly developed in that there are signs saying this way to this, and that….

 But other than that there isn’t much there at all.  A few sandy paths and that’s about it.  The bay itself is very pretty but you don’t get a sunset from it.  You all get back into the boats and head back to watch the sunset, all in all a lovely day and a lovely place to visit. 

 Aoife and I had great fun in our 10 days or so on Phi Phi but by the end of we both needed a rest from all the partying.  Aoife was heading to Koh Lanta for a more peaceful time on some of the other islands whilst it was time for me to start heading even further south to Singapore to get me one step closer to Australia!

The story finally continues - Samui, Full Moon Party and Koh Tao!

So I arrive in Samui airport a bit dazed and tired after the short flight and a busy day but keen to get in touch with Burley and the others to meet up with people from back home.  It was strange as I’ve not actually seen Burley for years but had seen Baz recently through other people.  Got in touch by text message and found out they had landed but they weren’t too sure where they were or where they were staying, Burley seemed to think because I had been travelling for a while I knew Samui which made things a bit harder to find them.

I managed to get a taxi from the airport up to Chaweng Beach, the area of the island I was staying in and arrived at the Embassy Hostel there.  It’s a small place with a café downstairs and then rooms upstairs.  Nice enough though with a couple of sofas to laze about on during the day and free wifi – perfect! I had booked my accommodation there months in advance and it turned out to be one of the most expensive places I stayed – that’s what you get when you book from home and don’t really know what the deals are in Thailand. It was fine though, more than I needed as I had a double bed with an extra sofa bed and a private bathroom with supposedly hot water but a shower that didn’t work for 3 nights with only cold water L Thankfully Samui was boiling so it wasn’t the end of the world.  Oh – I forgot to mention the really crappy air con that didn’t work properly either. 

I did a quick freshen up and headed out to meet Burley and the boys which was interesting as again, they were talking to me about the bar they were in as if I had any ideas of anything in the main town!  More by luck than judgment I managed to find them!  After 3 months on the road it was nice to see some familiar faces (obviously Lou and Yazz count but this was good too!). 

So what to tell you about the evening!  Well – one beer led to another which led to another which led to them dragging me into a strip bar! Not sure they want me to publicise this on the net – but it was an experience for me that I hadn’t planned on doing – or doing again!  They have about 15 or 20 girls up on this stage in their underwear grinding away to music and the stage has seats all around it which of course the boys wanted to sit at to be close to all the action.  Well I’ll leave it as an interesting experience in which one of the boys (not naming any names) got a bit to close to one of the girls and then decided to use me as his excuse not to go any further with her and said I was his girlfriend!  We only stayed for one drink and then ended up in some others bars and out till about 4am I think on a bar on the beach. 

The next day of course I was pretty wiped out and ended up doing a similar thing the following night with the boys.  The day after was New Years Eve – Nikki Burley and Karl were flying out as well so I went down to the guys very posh 5* hotel to meet up with them.  We organized boat tickets to get over to Koh Phanghan and the aim was to leave about 3pm as had heard horror stories about people leaving it till later on like 7pm and not even getting to the Island until after midnight – if they got there at all. 

Well we didn’t quite make it for 3pm as there was lots of toing and froing getting ready but we did end up over on the Island for about 5pm I think.  It was definitely the right idea to go earlier as we didn’t have too much trouble getting on the boat.  It was a bumpy and slightly scary ride though as soon after leaving the port they seemed to be having trouble with one of the engines and had to keep turning everything back off and then on again and then they seemed to sort it by having one of the crew sat at the back of the boat doing whatever was needed to the engines to keep it going!  Once they got it going though it was a bumpy ride and I was thankful I was sitting down!!!

The plan was to meet up with Leanne and some other peeps from home who were staying on the island itself.  First we went off to get some food (to be nice and sensible of course J ) however managed to choose the worst restaurant ever as the food took forever to come out.  Nik managed to spend the time though painting a lovely mural on Burleys back.  Unfortunately there are no pics from me for NYE as I didn’t want to take my camera in case it got stolen so you’ll just have to imagine it. 

We got down to the beach about 7pm and got us some buckets to drink to get the party going and it ended up being a great night, meeting random strangers to join our group and making our way down the beach.  Different bars in different sections playing music and then eventually we get down to the end of the beach and end up meeting up with Leanne etc which was great!   We ended up down at a bar playing techno music for midnight which was heaving and had this huge scaffolding structure with New Years Eve 2010 written on it – but in flames!  Very cool!!

Midnight came and loads of fireworks went off and carried on going off which was great until the first one went off funny and fired right into the crowd – apparently it landed really close to us but I didn’t notice.  I have to say I even managed to get a midnight snog off a random kiwi guy on the beach – but when everyone I was with left, I left him there J

We all ended up splitting up into different groups and I stayed with the girls and ended up having a bit more of a chilled end to the night sitting and chatting on the beach and having some meat on a stick and then as they were staying on the island I was planning on heading off to find the boat back as the boys had disappeared.  I followed the girls up off the beach to head towards the road/town thinking I would find somewhere but we managed to find the only dirt track uphill road which led to nowhere except a pickup truck with a thai family inside.

Somehow – one of the girls went up to them and managed to persuade them to give us a lift back to the girls resort –which we were happy to give them some money for.  Anyway – the 4 of us piled into the back of the pick up – and I do mean the back, you know where you put all the luggage and stuff like that.  Sat down and hung on for dear life.  It seems like this was a family who had also been to the party and were dropping various members off home on the way as we kept making stops and people kept piling out of the cab in the front.  Eventually we got back to the girls resort about 3am after an hour of driving in the countryside and by that time I had given up getting back to Koh Samui.  The girls were great though and piled the 3 of them into the big bed and let me sleep on the single in there. 

Next morning started my mission to get home which luckily enough their hotel helped me out with by sorting me a taxi to the port and a boat ticket.  A very funny ride in hindsight as the boat were full of people covered in neon paint and looking very sorry for themselves.  I made it back to the hostel and needless to say collapsed and relaxed. 

The next day Aoife and Amanda who I met in Laos were due to arrive in Samui after being on Phanghan for 10 days but didn’t end up meeting up with for NYE.  They didn’t have any accommodation but having sat in the lounge area on new years day and seeing about 20 people looking for accommodation and being turned away – I knew there wasn’t really anything available.  I told them to come down to me as I had a place that was plenty big enough for the 3 of us which they gladly did. 

The girls only had the visa you get on arrival and both of them needed to extend it so the next day we decided to take a taxi to the immigration office on the other side of the island – a complete waste of time as the bloody thing was closed it being a Saturday and which the taxi driver well and truly knew – so another time of being ripped off!  Anyway we made him take us back to the resort and then told him we were only giving him a bit of money as he knew the office was closed (there was a guy in a shop next door to immigration who told us this was a regular scam they pull).  Oh and I can't resist this photo of Amanda in the back of the cab fast asleep!

  The next few nights in Samui were fairly quiet as I had managed to get some kind of bite on my leg just before new years that hadn’t cleared up and seemed to be infected so I was on anti-biotics – a very good enforced and well needed detox!  It was good to be with the girls though and have some company.   It was fortunate as well though that we weren’t up for much as I experienced my first bit of Thai rain storms.  It wasn’t too bad and wasn’t constant but definitely meant we couldn’t sunbathe.

Both Aoife and I wanted to go to Koh Tao to try diving so the plan was to head there after a couple of days with Amanda. 

Off to the ferry we went expecting it to take about 3 hours to reach there but of course it took more like 4 and a half!  We hadn’t booked any accommodation before we reached there thinking we would find something when we arrived.  Of course that wasn’t the best plan as it was still so busy from New Years Eve everywhere and people moving on from the other places they had been.  We got off the boat and were bombarded with touts offering us places to stay which we decided to ignore and got in the back of a pick up truck to take us down to Sairee Beach, the area which has the most nightlife (of course!).  Our cunning plan was to leave Amanda in a café with all our bags whilst Aiofe and I hiked it up and down the beach looking for somewhere to stay.  We didn’t arrive on the Island till about 5pm and the sun sets by about 6.30pm so after an hour of asking around everywhere we were on the verge of giving up but then tried a travel agency place who said that there was maybe some rooms in a place in the main town.  It wasn’t cheap and not in the area we wanted but figured that it was better than not having anywhere to sleep that night.  Off we trotted and even went against the golden rule of paying before having seen the rooms figuring we had no choice.  Well it wasn’t the worst place we could have ended up staying – but it sure wasn’t the best.  We walked up stairs and got the shock of our life when you turn the corner and the building is half finished!!  I’m not joking – one end of the building had these glass doors in with a balcony and the other end was just open – no wall no nothing.  Then next to that was a room that was also half finished – a floor but no walls on 2 sides.  It was freaky!

Both of the rooms in there were petty basic with only a fan but had hot water and kind of comfy beds.  We booked it for 2 nights to give us a chance to find somewhere better to stay on the beach which was needed as there wasn’t much else around.  Anyway – we had to get a taxi from there down to the nightlife on Sairee Beach – its only a 5 minute drive – the way they drive ha ha ha!  So we asked the people downstairs to call us a taxi and this guy appears from nowhere and takes us down there.  Unlike everyone else on the Island he has a proper songthaew thing where you have proper benches in the back and a roof.  He also charged as a reasonable amount as on Koh Tao they have a taxi mafia and won’t take you anywhere for less than 100 baht a person which is a rip off.  The main reason is scooters are so cheap to hire so it has to be worth their while.

We managed to get him bartered down to 200 for the 3 of us so I decided to ask him if we could have his number and call him when we need to get back up to the hotel – he said no problem and I asked until what time I could call – he said any time!  Unfortunately I don’t think him or his girlfriend/wife were bargaining on us calling at 4am – although it might have been later – whoops!!!

Actually I think that night was fairly quiet and we went out for a few but I was still on my antibiotics.  So Koh Tao is definitely my favourite Island I have been to so far in Thailand.  Its small and friendly and apart from the taxi mafia, the locals are great.  On our second day there we took to the beach again to ask around for rooms and ended up just booking a place in the first place we went to which is where we had dinner the night before.  Wind Beach.  The staff in there were really friendly, the food was good (apart from Rudy who forgot my order) and it had a really nice vibe about it even though we couldn’t see the room first!!  Oh and they had free wifi – always a good plus for me!

They had a triple room as well which was perfect but only a cold water shower – ergh!

So we made it down to Wind Beach to move in and had a fantastic time on the island living by night and seeing a few hours of daylight each day J  There are some great bars there – Fizz a good chillout place with these huge beanbag chairs and fab cocktails, then Lotus bar who have about 5 or 6 guys doing fire shows on the beach each night which also includes fire rope jumping! (film to follow on facebook eventually!).  Lotus is basically the place to go until about 2am when you walk up the beach to Cave bar, which isn’t really a cave, but a building built to resemble a cave inside, and that tends to keep going till about sunrise. 

The first couple of days my leg hadn’t gotten better so I didn’t want to go in the sea or diving with it and then by that time we were too late to book a diving course so all 3 of us decided to turn it into a bit of a party week!  Needless to say great fun was had by all J

Next stop – bye bye Amanda – hello Krabi and Koh Phi Phi!

The return to Thailand -

So amazingly although I knew Lou and Yazz were flying to Phuket the following day none of us had worked out that we were all staying in Bangkok the same night!

We got in touch by text and once they had checked into their hotel they took a cab over to me.  It was sooooo good to see them after 3 months on the road and gave each other the biggest hug!  We headed out so that they could go and see Khao San Road again after nearly 10 years and reminisce a bit.  I thought I could find the way again walking without a map and we went past City Hall as there was some kind of event going on there – although we aren’t sure what but there were loads of locals and stalls and stuff going on.  From there we headed towards KSR but I ended up not really knowing where we were so we flagged a tuk tuk down and it turns out it was only across the road – whoops! 

Still we walked down KSR and they said it hadn’t really changed much and stopped off for dinner in one of the busy bars down there for their first thai meal.

We were all pretty knackered so headed back to our respective places at a reasonable hour.  That night I shared my dorm room with 3 Japanese guys – who came in, turned the lights on, faffed about doing stuff and then went out again without turning the lights off! V.annoying!

I had to get up really early the next morning for the 2^nd day in a row to get my flight to Phuket. I am being quite a bad backpacker really as I seem to be flying everywhere apart from my overland journeys in Laos, but when I look at the costs of the flight and they aren’t that much versus the amount of time taken to do an overland on my own, I can’t help it. Lou and Yazz were taking a slightly later flight than me so the plan was for me to hang around the airport for a couple of hours for them to arrive as their friend Josh was picking them up.  Typically their flight was delayed but Josh came and found me and we waited for them to turn up. 

We headed out to Josh’s place which was in a very residential area of Phuket away from all the touristy stuff, then he took us to a beach (can’t remember where again!) to chill for the afternoon and have some lunch.  

  

We all took a dip in the lovely warm sea J and then headed back to Josh and his girlfriends place for takeway thai food!  Thai style!  Its great, apparently they call this guy up and he delivers this big box which has this electric plate and bowl thing into which you pour a stock soup thing and then add all manner of other veggies and meats and fish to and just let it all boil up together and then start helping yourself as you add more stuff to it.  They even supply all the bowls and spoons and stuff and after you are done you chuck it all back in the box and leave it outside for them to collect the next day – I’m liking this style of takeaway J It was yummy and healthy with absolutely no work – well apart from cooking it yourself!

  

The next day we took a drive into Patong and I have to say I’m pleased I didn’t spend much more time in this area than the day as it felt like a really touristy resort full of tourist shops and bars but more than anywhere else I have been.  It felt a bit like a cheesy Spanish resort – but in Thailand - and the beaches were heaving and not particularly pretty.  Josh did tell us though that there are some much nicer areas of Phuket which aren’t as developed so if you go, don’t go to Patong, find somewhere else, we saw a bit more of Phuket as Josh gave me a lift to the airport that afternoon and we took the scenic route and saw a lot more of Phuket than just Patong.  We mainly went there as its where the Resturant group Josh works for is based and Lou and Yazz know the owner there as well so they wanted to go and say hello. 

Pum the owner wanted to come out to Lunch with us as well but didn’t want to eat there as she wanted “traditional” English fish and chips so we drove out of down to this amazing 5 star resort where we had lunch.  It was beautiful but nearly ruined as I think I got a bit overly hot and felt quite nauseous!

  

So as I say, after lunch Josh gave me a lift to the airport for me to head over to Samui and it was time for another tiny little plane.  This time though I have never seen a plane full literally of young people going over to party! I ended up sitting next to an aussie guy who was scared stiff of flying – not what I needed as I was pretty nervous myself on that tiny plane. 

Next installment - party times on the Islands!