I did get up at seven and went downstairs to Skype home. Sarah joined me at around Seven Twenty, we then booked that nights hotel and the first four nights on the island of Koh Tao as that was where we were heading today. After the internety business we moved about twenty yards to have breakfast, this was, to be fair, a nice area it was a bar at night and had flowers all around the edge and was outside with a pergoda roof on it. We both had toast with the count of two, I said two, fried eggs on and bacon with coffee. It was gratefully received and didn't last long. We again had a walk down Koh San road. In the daylight the stalls and things were mostly closed at this time (about nine thirty) but the Tuc-Tuc drivers were out, one nearly got a smack round the chops grabbing my arm and trying to drag me to his vehicle, knob. The bars seemed to be open and there were a couple of lads who had a bucket of vodka each, good on them. It was still good fun down there though. We then headed back to the road at the back of the hotel, check out was twelve here so we left the bags in the room for a while. Then we went in search of a taxi at about eleven o'clock to take us to the station, a few of them said two hundred Baht so we searched until one said he would take us for one hundred Baht, to be fair it was quite a long way and took about twenty minutes, I gave him his two quid (equivalent of) and we went in the station, we were a little worried about missing the train so we got there early.... maybe a bit to early as it was still an hour and a half before the train left. We had a bite to eat, both had fried rice with a curry type substance on top - it was c*** on though, then we had a drink on the other side of the station got some snacks for the journey and got on the train as instructed thirty minutes before departure, our seats were the poshest on the train (not through choice, they were the only ones left) leather backed and very comfy, I nipped of ten minutes before departure to get a cut up pineapple from a street vendor. We set off in a very jolty way - looked like we were head banging, the jerking stopped as we set of but the train went very slowly (fifty at the most), after five minutes there were people walking up and down th aisles almost every minute shouting what they were selling, all of it was food but we did not know how much or how to do it so were reluctant. We were gone about an hour and I said 'I am going to investigate the train' I walked along had a lag and the toilet was great, just a hole down to the track. Then I walked from our carriage to the next and had a double take when walking past the doors... there weren't any! I took this as an opportunity to dangle my legs out the side and take a few snaps, it was mint. I got as far as the bar and who should be in there with large beers on the go, the lads who had the buckets of spirits on Koh San road, they were laughing heartily and having a great time. I returned to my seat, the views were sensational worth the grueling journey, it was lush green countryside. I headed back to the bar about four hours in to the journey to get some food (there were now eight empty litre bottles of Chang on the table from the lads), I ordered food and asked them to put it in a tray to take back to the seat, it turned out to be an expensive ordeal, our most expensive meal yet and I did it wrong, I only ordered meat and chilli's and Sarah vegetables, I returned back to the seat and Holy mackeral Batman it was the spicyest thing I have ever eaten (and I love spice) my lips, tongue and general mouth area was as warm as toast, then one of the food chaps came along and as I was on fire and starving, I asked how much, it was only thirty five Baht (I could have had five of them for the same price as my fire meat) it was delicious n all. Nothing else happened until five hours into the journey when they got the beds out and we were forced into the top bunks as we hadn't paid for window beds. This was now boring as Sarah the sleeping egg was not available to talk to. The train was late arriving at Chumphon and got in just over nine hours after we had set of at just gone ten, a mammoth journey. It was raining and smelt of rain as we looked for a taxi, a lady said I can take you for fifty Baht, that sounds cheap enough to me, we got in what wasn't a taxi but a blokes four by four, we sat in the back and then two Canadian dancers got in as well, very cozy, but sure enough he took us straight to the Hotel Paradorn, it looked nice, 'hello my names Sarah and i'd like to check in we have paid for our room' 'me not find you' just what you want after nine hours on a train, it was now about eleven thirty in the evening, we ended up happy though because we are due a refund from the website we booked it through of six hundred Baht and we got a walk in price of four hundred Baht, the room was plush and only cost eight pounds. We got to sleep at half past midnight the alarm set for four forty five as the boat to Koh Tao left at seven AM and the free bus picked us up at six o'clock.