Day 20, 7th February & Day 21, 8th February

Got picked up from our hotel in Siem Reap at 8am this morning for our 6hour coach journey to Bangkok the bus was pretty full and there were some patio chairs on the 2 front seats we joking said i bet they try to fill the bus and put them all down the isle...only they did a poor couple were made to sit on these plastic chairs for most of the journey and at one point had to stand. What we didn't know is that when you get to the border we had to walk for about 10 mins to get from the Cambodian border to the Thailand border. Once we had out visa stamp we then had to wait around for a mini bus to take us to the train station in bangkok a further 4 hour drive. It was a tiny van and were sat really close to another couple. (i ttried to get some slepp butit wasn't very comfortable and i had fallen asleep on the girls shoulder that i was sat next to.....and no it wasn't Mel bit embarrasing lol)

When we finally got to the train station we bought our train/ferry/bus ticket to get us all the way to Koh Tao but as the night train didn't leave until 22:50 we had a 5 hour wait and with no bar we had to make do with a milkshake.

The time finally came to go to the platform and when the train turned up an english guy called Bob was also sitting in our carridge offered to help us put our bags on the train of course we accepted as there was no way we'd of got them upon the luggage rack ourselves. We all then got chatting to another guy called Kirt who was travelling on his own. With Bob sharing his bottles of Chang and packets of crisps with us all the 7 hour journey didn't seem to take too long and we even managed to sleep.

When we got near to Chumphon station where we had to get off the woman that worked on the train came and rudely ripped us from our sleep by snatching our blankets away!! After the long journey i reallyneed a pee but youhad to pay 20 bhat which in my urgency i couldn't get my purse out quick enough so Bob paid for me haha.

We were then shouted at to get on to our bus to take us to the ferry port....Bob and Kirts bus was a nice big shinny one and then me and Mel saw ours it was just our luck it looked like a dodgey trailor crammed with about 50 people and no room for us. Luckily another couple also needed to get on so they got another mini bus. That was the last we saw of our new friends.

When we got on the ferry there was afew diving touts trying to get youto stay at there hotels, we couldn't decide which to go for and had been chatting to a french indepent instructor whosaid his friends hotel and diving package would be cheaper and in a quiter resort so we went to the Carabo resort. When we got to the hotel they seemed friendly enough and the room was nice the balcony had a seaview so we were happy!!

We signed up for Scuba and after giving us a book to read before we started we bought some beach towels to do some sunbathing and do our homework. Whilst i was reading a random lady asked if we had sun lotion and after i passed it over she asked if i'd rub some on her back....Mel had scarpered so i had no choice :o(

When Mel came back to the beach a bird was trying to fly off with my bag but as it was too heavy gave up on that and nearly flew off with Mel's shorts you had to be there but it was soooo funny!

We ordered some food and a couple of vodka orange shakes to end the evening.

Day 22, 9th February

No early morning for us today when we finally got up we walked to a little cafe for some brekkie and then had to go back to the hotel to watch a 2 hour dive dvd soooo boring that i think we all nodded off at one point lol. We met a guy from New York who was also going out on his first dive the same day as us and was really nice that he spoke english as everyone else at the resort was french!!

After the dvd we walked to the resort of Sairee beach it took about 40 mins in the blistering heat but it was worth it as the beach was sooo nice.

We got some food (pad thai noodles for me again) in the Bans diving resort resturant we stayed in Sairee til about 12 ish that night drinking vodka redbull buckets in the fish bowl bar.