8/11/09Up early again this morning. Got picked up from our hotel and taken back to Kiwi Orchid for breakfast and a brew, then it was off to catch the ferry, oh I forgot to mention it's pissing it down! As I'm sitting here now rocking up and down, up and down, up and down I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have bothered with the omelette and just had my brew! Only a short hour and a half boat ride and I'll be in paradise!Short boat ride later - yep, I was right, it's...

7/11/09Early start this morning, had to catch a train from Cha-am to Chumpon at 11.18, this was delayed for an hour however so we saw a lot of the tiny train station that morning! (I have to say it was worlds apart from trying to catch a train in India, a lot less stress!)Finally got on the train at 12.30ish for a 5 hour journey to Chumpon. Once in Chumpon we'd planned to get a bus to Ranong and then a ferry to Koh Payam. Due to the train being late we were runni...

We got up the next day and we're off in a VIP minibus to Cha-am, about 4 hours down the road from Bangkok on the Northwestern Gulf coast. I'm finally going to the beach woo hoo! The bus was nice, we think it was VIP because it was only a small minibus with air con, there wasn't a minibar or anything! It was full by the time we got on so we had to sit in the front next to the driver, it was o.k but I had the full blast of the A/C all the way, this was nice for the...

Arrived in Bangkok airport (BKK), what a difference 4 hours on a plane makes, I feel like I'm back in civilisation! The airport is really big and after a long queue at immigration we finally arrived! No taxi drivers hassling us, everyone queues up, customers and taxi drivers, it's all very organised! We got a taxi to our hotel which was just outside Bangkok centre, very nice, clean streets, clean hotel, friendly people. Room is nice, hot shower woo hoo!The next d...