Hi Everyone! Hope you are all keeping well? Well after 2 glorious weeks on Ko Phi Phi we finally built up enough courage to leave our very comfortable and predictable lifestyle that had developed on the island and move onto Ko Samui. (actually its not so bad when you know you are heading to another island in the sun!) So after saying our goodbyes to the island and the locals that we had befriended, we headed off on the ferry, back to the mainland. This took about 2 hours. The problem with these ferries is that they make you take your bags down the stairs to where you are sitting. Not so bad going down but a nightmare trying to get back up them. You see them approaching in the distance and you look at the other people who seem to be getting up them with no real issues, so you think to yourself that it will be fine. So as you take the first step you realise that the weight on your back is slowly pushing you into the ground as you try to heave yourself onto the next step. Its like something out of a comedy sketch. By the time I've reached the 3rd step things arent looking to good for me and I have to consider that I may not actually make it to the top.Thats when a hand appears. I look up to see a nice thai guy offering me his hand to get up these god forsaken steps. I finally make it to the top. Nice to have fresh air around me!! As I wait for tash to come up from the depths below I notice that everone else, including guys are also being helped out. I was starting to get a little concerned that the little muscle I had had turned into mush due to the only exercise over the last two weeks consisting of walking to the beach and back again to our bungalow. Anyway, we then got shipped onto a van and were driven to one of the travel offices where we waited for about 45mins. Like cattle we were loaded onto a coach and taken 1.5hrs to another destination, where we waited for nearly 2hrs. By this stage we were getting a little fed up. To make matters a little worse we had a severe drama queen in our midst. This lady had apparently twisted her ankle earlier that morning trying to get her ridiculously large suitcases down some stairs and the pain hadnt kicked in until we got off the coach. She actually started to cry and these poor dutch girls got stuck talking to her. For the next 2 hrs she talked about herself and kept making jesters towards Tash and I to try and get us involved in the conversation...we were haveing none of it so read our books. The poor girls were then given the task of moving her bags for her as she hobbled around the place trying to tell her story to anyone who would listen. We got onto yet another coach for 1.5hrs and finally arrived at a port where we boarded the ferry. This time to guys got stuck with her cases. For the 2hrd we were on the ferry she manged to tell at least 6 thai people about her ankle...which I would like to point out wasnt swollen in the slightest!! We were just concerned that she would end up staying in the same place as us. It is strange being back here after 5 years. As the taxi drove us to our accommodation, we went down Chaweng beach road and I honestly remembered very little of it. I did however recognise the place I stayed last time I was here...The Amari Reef Resort. If only we could stay here this time round!! Instead we are in a small room, off a dirt track where the taxi drivers park their vans. It is only costing just over 3 pounds a night which you cant complain about! Just a little annoying that we have to walk past the Amari to get into town. Well today was our first full day here. We headed to the beach which is quite a bit bigger than Ko Phi Phis, but there arent many places to sit unless you are attached to one of teh resorts. I think we are going to have a real hunt tomorrow to see if we can find somewhere that has deckchairs and umbrellas. Well on that note, we are off to have dinner and mooch around the many stalls they have lining the streets. Take care everyone! x x x