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right so, i'm actually updating this about a year later from hmoe. It's the 30th of Dec 2009 and i'm at my folk's place in Carnoustie. I've been meaning to finish this off for ages but the diary that i had with me on my travels has been hiding here and i forgot every time i was in Carnoustie visiting. I realise that no-one will read this online, i dont blame you, but i need to finish it off..........
So, I arrived back to the Niras Hostel in Bangkok after the train journey-from-hell back from northern Thailand. It was 630am and the hostel reception was pretty much closed and i wasn't allowed to check in til the afternoon but fortunately the cleaning lady recognised me from my previous stay and let me into the tv lounge and made me tea, what a star!
I basically spent the next 3 days hanging around Bangkok and doing very little. I'd wake up late morning/early afternoon and take a saunter up to the Ko san road for some breakfast - muesli, yoghurt and fruit. Then have a look about the markets/temples on the way back to the hostel where i'd have a wee nap before going back up to the KSR for food in the evening. At night i'd watch films or football in the hostel. I booked my train south and said goodbye to the lovely people at the hostel. Definitely the nicest hostel owners i've met on my travels.
The train south was fairly standard for a train journey in Thailand - comfy enough bed, amazng scenery, fairly boring chat with fellow travellers and then getting annoyed with drunken passengers when i'm trying to sleep! (this journey there was a very, very drunk canadian couple arguing incredibly loudly in-between the carriages about the man's 'lack of respect and blatant flirting'...idiots.) I then got a bus to a bus 'station' (shack in the middle of nowhere) and then the minibus to Krabi, which fortunately i slept the whole way on. Then, after some wandering aimlessly around Krabi, i found, and got on, the longtail boat to Railay...
Railay is heaven. It's incredible. This is the Thailand you see on tv. Tall limestone cliffs rising out of emerald-green seas into bright blue skies next to pure white beaches. Awesome. I got a fairly standard double room in a nice resort called the Diamond Cove. It is surrounded by limestone cliffs and also jungle, so cool. My days here were all similar - up late, breakfast in beach cafe (muesli/yoghurt/fruit again), beach for a few hours, lunch in beachside cafe (banana pancakes), nap, read book and sunbathe more, dinner in local restaurant, coffee in beachside cafe (a different one!) under the moonlight, back to hotel bar for a few beers while watching footy on tv then bed. A-mazing.
Then after 4 days, i left Railay and went back to Krabi. i spent the night in a pretty nice hotel here. I'm spoinling myself a wee bit because after that night i was done - My travels were essentially over and all that was to be done was make the long, long journey home.
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