Up at 7:15am, spoke with Rach. Then breakfast & pickup by tour operator at 8:30 am. We're driven across the island. Some large towns on the way. Interesting to note that blocking roundabouts & making all traffic do u-turn instead seems common. Turns out there was a breakfast (light) also included in our cruise (not that we needed it). We were eventually briefed & ushered into a boat (around 36 per boat with 2 boats). For the first island stop,...

Quieter day today, off to Breakfast around 8 am. Pickup washing then got a taxi to Dino Golf (45 min south along the coast/along some of the hills). Was good to get to see the west side of the island. The area our accommodation is in is reasonably quiet, so good to see the area. There are a lot of cannabis shops on the island (interesting, it is recreationally illegal…, but medicinally permitted since 2022 - clearly a lot of "medical" need!) Dino Gol...

Breakfast at 8am, then taxi (Bolt app) to Andamanda Phuket. Interesting to drive through much of the north of the island. The traffic & roads are not to bad & much better than Bali. Although some interesting challenges, like 5 min cue to u-turn on a hwy as it seemed a roundabout was closed off & some buddhist shine & few praying on the roundabout (not sure if the partial closure of the roundabout was related to the few people praying or not). ...

Had a quieter day. Up at 7:45 am & had breakfast (included) at the resort. We dropped some laundry off down the road and got some more suncream (after accidentally taking it through airport security & having to throw it out). We took a short walk around that area, which is a reasonably quiet area with a large boxing academy. Back at the hotel, we hung out & played in the pool for a few hours. Rained a bit while in the pool. Played mini golf ...

We got up at 7:45 a.m., packed, and ate breakfast. I tried a lot of new options today and found the Ratatouille great. Then we played a round of mini golf (on level 18). One the first hole, Ethan hit it way too hard, but it hit the flag & went straight in for a hole-in-one! Went to the top of tower one last time to look around, then on our way. Walked to the train station for the Airport express line. This was quite a mission, walking through the alleyw...