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So we arrive back to Kata-on-Sea at 1900, tired and wanting to just collect our rucksacks and shower in out bungalow before heading our for a Valentine's meal. We had responsibly left our bags at Kata-on-Sea resort, accompanied by our reservation for our room for when we returned. We had triple checked this before we left... but of course, on our return, the owners were out celebrating Chinese new year have left two helpful but non-English speaking ladies on the front desk who both look surprised by our arrival. After a somewhat strained phone call to the owners at their party (so loud they can't hear us etc.) they tell us that they haven't indeed booked a room for us as promised and that we can stay with their brother who has a few bungalows a 100yards a way. So off to her brother's place to be shown a sweat box of a room with windows that don't open - not good enough even for 400 baht a night. As we walk away a little man runs after us saying he has a bungalow for 400 baht, here we go again we think, but do you know he did. Just below Kata-on-sea (so we miss the steepest part of the hill), cheaper than KOS, newly painted, quiet fan, windows that open and everything. Yes please! And despite the somewhat lax-feeling business arrangent we made with him (the three bungalows he runs have no name and basically sit in his garden), we'd stay at his place, over Kata-on-Sea, again.
After that bit of a palaver we went out to have a well deserved romantic Valentine's meal at Kampong Kata Hill - lovely and so was the wine.
Question: how many helpful Thais does it take to get one Swedish woman out of a public toilet? Answer: 4 women (two with bottle openers, one with meat cleaver), 6 men, a dog and a baby girl (foisted upon Suzie while her father tended to the door with a screwdriver). This, we learnt when minding our own business in Kata beach public loos and Andrew heard a cry of "Can you help me? I am stuck in the toilet!" As our efforts were not up to much (Andrew used his great manly strength and succeeded only in pulling the handle clean off the door), we sought help from neighbouring business woman... who called in the cavalry. They got her out in the end, by the way, though it probably would have been quicker for her to kick the door down.
Next stop is Koh Phi Phi or is it Koh Lanta?
After that bit of a palaver we went out to have a well deserved romantic Valentine's meal at Kampong Kata Hill - lovely and so was the wine.
Question: how many helpful Thais does it take to get one Swedish woman out of a public toilet? Answer: 4 women (two with bottle openers, one with meat cleaver), 6 men, a dog and a baby girl (foisted upon Suzie while her father tended to the door with a screwdriver). This, we learnt when minding our own business in Kata beach public loos and Andrew heard a cry of "Can you help me? I am stuck in the toilet!" As our efforts were not up to much (Andrew used his great manly strength and succeeded only in pulling the handle clean off the door), we sought help from neighbouring business woman... who called in the cavalry. They got her out in the end, by the way, though it probably would have been quicker for her to kick the door down.
Next stop is Koh Phi Phi or is it Koh Lanta?
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