Tuesday 22 July 2008 Checking out of Baan Haad Ngam today catching the fast boat to Koh Pha Ngan at 13.30 hours. Sunset Cove Resort Arrived at Sunset Cove around 3pm. Nothing like Baan Haad Ngam Resort on Koh Samui. Much more laid back and casual. Not good service and the food is nowhere near as good. Also doesn't have the excitement of Koh Samui. Mostly Europeans staying here. No Aussies. Bar on beach I found a little bar on the beach playing Bob Marley's ...

Monday 21 July 2008 Sunbaked on the beach for 20 minutes and it was so hot that was all I could stand. Spent the rest of the day listening to my reggae mix on my Ipod in the shade by the pool. Swam a lot but could not put my head in as I had an external ear infection in one ear. I went to the pharmacist and got sofradex, didn't need a script. Drank a lot of watermelon juice which I love as well as water. Went to Jack's Beach Bar again and Bob Marley's 'Buffalo ...

Sunday 20 July 2008 It had rained all night and all morning. In the afternoon it stopped raining and I walked along the beach into town. I bought a Billabong cap and Diesel bag - both of which I love. I had a banana pancake and coconut juice at Montien on the beach. Later I had a margarita at one of the main bars and it was so noisy with music from several bars creating a discordant sound that was not relaxing. I moved on to another bar and had a mojito and fi...

Saturday 19 July 2008 Samui Institute of Thai Culinary Arts and Natsuda Toby, Anka and I got the free hotel bus into town and the driver couldn't find SITCA. Luckily we left with plenty of time and eventually found it. There was one other person in the class, a Pakistani woman who lives in Singapore. I took a photo of Toby and Anka and the Pakistani woman was upset I didn't include her in the photo and she got one of the staff to take a photo of all of us with ...

Friday 18 July 2008 Lazed around the pool and had a Thai massage for 200 baht ($6) for one and a half hours under a beautiful big tree overlooking the ocean. The ladies were laughing at me for all the sounds I made as I released the aches and pains from the climb to the lake. What a killer climb that was. I met a young German man called Toby when I was booking in to do a Thai cooking class and he decided he wanted to do it with me. Next I met his girlfriend An...