(18 November) Today was not a great day. Woke up to a bit of a crime scene beside my bed as it looked like I had just got in and pushed everything off my bed onto the floor, and my sunglasses were a casualty! Gutted! Then at about 10 Kristin and I woke up almost at exactly the same time with awful stomach cramps - it was so painful! We must have got food poisoning from dinner the night before, which is really weird because it was one of the nicest places I've e...

(17 November) Today was Oli's birthday! He came and woke is earlyish and the 3 of us and Sophie went to Long Beach which was about an hour walk on the other side of the island! We saw Silvio and Hollie on the way, they were still drunk from the night before haha, and they said they would come and meet us, but were leaving to go to Ko Lanta in the afternoon. We wandered down to the pier, stopping at some bakeries for breakfast (yum!) and renting a snorkel on th...

(16 November) Today I got up and was ready to get out of there - I was going to look for a cheapish place to stay somewhere else and if I didn't find one I was all set to leave, I was so grumpy from the lack of sleep and pain in my legs! Kristin got up just before I was leaving and came with me to look for somewhere, we ended up at a guesthouse a good bit up the road and shared a private room - it was basic but felt like proper luxury after the rock! Beat decisi...

(15 November) This morning Anna woke me pretty early to buy tickets for a boat tour of the islands. I had slept ok but Anna and Oli had had no sleep because apparently it was really noisy, so they talked about leaving and then decided to give it another night...only to come back about 10 minutes before we had to leave for the tour and say they had actually decided to move across the road! It was too late for me to pack up my bag and stuff and I had slept ok so I...

(14 November) The 5 of us got up early to get the ferry to Ko Phi Phi. Had an awesome baguette and watermelon for breakfast from a lady by the pier. The views were pretty awesome, but I ended up sleeping most of the way haha, even though I was trying to get through Oli's book - Stephen fry's autobiography - before we separated lol. We arrived at the island and it was crazily busy at the pier, but still stunning! We walked for what felt like forever in the heat...