The boat of hell dropped us off at the port in Chumphon at 6am - apparently 90 minutes late, but at the time we were too busy coming to terms with the fact that we had actually managed to sleep at all, to take any notice! We then got bundled into a sawawraw to a cafe that seemed to serve as a ticket office, and then the same guy dropped us off outside not a bus station but just a random bus parked down a quiet street - with one ticket supposedly covering us 7 'fa...

The journey to Ko Tao was pretty painless, but Jonny got soaked a few times from seawater blowing in through the window which was very funny!We rocked up on Sairee Beach (after some fruitless bargaining with the tuk tuk driver) and I set off on a quest to find us somewhere to stay for the night. It seems that the days of cheap beach huts have long since passed, and I think the top end of what I was quoted was 2,100 Baht for one night. Needless to say I moved swif...

Monday was another long day of travelling, but in the end all of our connections worked really well and were almost seemless as we were herded off one bus and onto the next. By the end of the day we had made it from an island off the West coast to one off the East and even overcame the bus to Surat Tani breaking down - with a lot of help from a nice Thai lady who was going to Ko Pha-Ngan herself and who spoke really good English and took us under her wing for the...

Getting the bus to Khura Buri was not as easy as we had hoped, as the first one we got on would only take us half the way there. The bus conductor was about 15, blatantly made up the price of the fare and was really bossy to the point where he prodded you if he wanted you to move! Which would have been fine if there was actually anywhere to move to on the crammed bus. We then changed buses at Tukwopa but everyone seemed really confused at where we wanted to go. I...

Tuesday was a long day of travel, first getting a mini bus out of Georgetown to the Thai border town of Hat Yai where we had a bit of a nervous hour and a half wait after we got dumped out of the minibus and left to get our connection without any kind of ticket or proof that we had paid to get all the way to Phuket. Luckily though we did get on our connecting bus without any bother, even if it was hot, sweaty and full of facinated locals openly staring at us! We ...