Big news!!!! the neighbours had a fight at 5:30am. Don't know what it was about as the shouting was all in Thai but the damage must be extensive as we heard glass and furniture being thrown around and broken. The best we can hope is the couple next door were having a major tiff, but we fear our neighbour had tried to renegotiate the price with a lady, who was throwing the strop. You have to be careful in this hotel as everything and I mean everything has a price....

Lazy morning by the pool then Yvonne when shopping while David took a leisurely stroll to the local bar. We are starting to regret having booked 12 nights here, as we are kicking our heals waiting for Monday when we travel again. When we booked everything we thought it would be nice to have a long break at the end but as it turns out we would have much preferred to keep travelling. The trouble with 8 weeks is you are not really on holiday so holiday activities d...

Highlight (or lowlight depending on your interpretation) of today was a major power cut. We were sat in a bar and all the power right along the main road went out and stayed out for about an hour. Since our room is on the 7th floor of the hotel we decided that it was daft to go back to climb 7 flights of stairs to get to a dark and hot hotel room. Of course as soon as we had made that decision and ordered more drinks, the power came back on. Yvonne thought David ...

Busy day, pool, coffee shop (to cool down in aircon), beach then back to the pool just in time for it to rain so ran back to the pool for a swim in the rain. For our evening entertainment we picked a bar in the centre of Soi Bangla and watched the tide of humanity go past. Highlights included the Qatar foot volley team buying tickets to the naughty show (an education for them I'm sure), the queen of Russia (out dressed the other Russians which takes some doing), ...

Decided this morning to mix things up a bit. So after breakfast we headed to the beach. We noticed last night that the beach bar we were in rented space under their trees with a mat, table and towel. Last night was so peaceful with the sound of the waves lapping on the shore; we just had to. Now we've never been to a formula 1 race but imagine the noise that met us is similar as when we arrived the high speed jet skies were at full throttle as part of the beach g...