This morning we managed a lie-in and eventually left the hotel at about 11:30am. We decided to walk down to the pier, 600m from our hotel according to the sign outside. After about 10 minutes we stumbled upon a large tent filled with food stalls and the Obligatory plastic chairs! We grabbed some breakfast (ham and cheese toasties -mmm!) and then walked the short distance to the beach. At one end it was connected to an island just off shore by a narrow sand b...

Our pick-up for our day trip to the Koh Phi Phi Islands was at 8:30 this morning and we were collected in a very old, run down songthaew which looked like it had been made from scraps of wood. It didn't have any wing mirrors, just one extra long rearview mirror! We weren't going far, however, only to the beach after picking up a few others. We were dropped at the tour office and given our stickers to identify which boat trip we were on - they like giving you st...

Today we were up at 6am for our pick-up that would take us to Krabi, a few hours away on the West coast of Thailand. We drove the short distance to the port, where we'd booked to catch the Lomprayah catamaran to Surat Thani on the mainland. For a change the whole bus to boat transfer seemed to go very smoothly, we were shown into seats in a waiting area beside the dock and the catamaran arrived a few minutes later - we were very impressed! Once on board it was...

Today Dave and I planned to go to the beach - a 2 minute walk from the hotel! Chris was still suffering with his sunburn so decided to stay inside out of the sun, but we arranged to meet him at lunchtime in the bar for some food. At the beach we picked a spot in the shade, under some palm trees loaded with coconuts which looked like they could fall on our heads at any time - a bit scary but we didn't want to be in the sun! The beach was beautiful and very peac...

After a much better night's sleep, we packed up again and left our little bungalow/shack behind. We took a taxi from the hotel to the port at Thong Sala where we thought we could catch a boat to Samui at 10am based on what our guidebook said - wrong! No boat until 11am so we waited around and arranged a transfer to our hotel on the other side. Our SeaTran ferry eventually arrived and we were off for the short hop (about half an hour) to Big Buddha pier, named a...