It was an early morning start: we were being collected at 7.30am. We made our way to the corner where we'd been dropped off and sat with our bags at the restaurant that was closed, waiting for our lift. There was a minivan parked a little further down from where we were, so Edd went to investigate if it was our taxi. He asked the driver if he was going to Koh Lipe and the guy shoved his hand in Edd's face in a 'talk to the hand' kind of gesture. T...

We woke up quite late, around 10ish and got ready for the day's adventures. We decided to take our new snorkelling gear with us for a test run and I packed a bag of other necessities (bug spray, sun cream, disinfectant hand wipes, etc) while Edd and his friend organised their mopeds.Edd needed a bit of a practise, so I walked while we went in search of his friend. He managed to get the hang of it and I hopped on the back, acutely aware of his lack of confidence o...

We'd bought plane tickets the night before, just before we went to bed (last minute dot com) and were being fetched at 8am to get taken to the old airport. (Price for flights for 3 people: £69 in total). It was amazing how you could fly across Thailand for so cheap, yet tuk tuk drivers tried to extort the most ridiculous amounts of money to go 3km's down the road. No sense. We had the choice of flying or a 24 hour bus ride down the coast, which none of us though...

9am. Time to get up. We're both still drunk. We got dressed, brushed our teeth, did our utmost to look presentable and then all went to McDonalds for breakfast. Nothing like a cardboard burger to ease away a pending hangover. Oh wait, egg Mc Muffin job, they only do burgers after 11am. Bummer.We then walked in the direction of the bus stop and got a cab to go to the Bangkok Market. We welcomed the 30 minutes of air conned happiness that we experienced, while the ...

We had a lie in until 9am and then decided it was time to get up. It was hard to gage what time of day it was in a room with no windows: it always seemed to be midnight.We showered, got dressed and made our way to the bus stop – we were going to one of the biggest shopping centres in the world and decided to take the local transport getting there. Edd had Google mapped it out and apparently we needed to take the 183 bus. I distinctly remembered it being the...