We woke to a knock on the door from the man who owned the bungalows. We threw our things together then headed back in his truck to the office where the breakfast was siting on a shelf waiting for us. It was cold fried egg, cold nearly toasted bread and shredded cabbage. Lee eat it and then mine. No matter how hungry I was I wasn't THAT hungry. We felt like we needed to get a proper wash and get ourselves organized before we went to the Surin islands so we made ou...

We said goodbye to our friends at Captain Nemo's and headed for the pier. Because we'd arrived from Laos by land we only had 15 days in Thailand which ran out today so we had to do a visa run to Burma! Starting with a boat trip to champong then a minibus to Ranong then another boat to Burma. Once in Burma we got picked up by a bus and taken to a hotel with duty free! I got a bottle of vodka for 280bahts!!! Bargain (under £6). I bought a bar of turkish delight da...

In the news there had been Iranian terrorists who had thrown bombs at police. Apparently Police were allerted when a bomb had gone off in a home in Bangkok, when the police showed up one of the men threw bombs at the police car. The bomb had bounced back and blown the terrorists legs off! So he got arrested (unable to get away), another man had been arrested and the 3rd was missing. So our bus was stopped 3-4 times. Each time an armed army man got on, checked eve...

We woke to rain! Rain on this beautiful island? We were feeling a little bit delicate so we decided to nip out get some food then hibernate in the room all day. So that's what we did!

We woke when we wanted today. No alarms, no bus to catch, no trip to be ready for - just free time! We decided to go for a stroll around the island. You can hire Scooters but the roads are sandy and there are huge hills that the scooter struggles to get up and the breaks are unreliable when going down - so we walked. I was chief navigator with my map to hand! I found a little shop where a man sat making hair accessories and jewellery. I treated myself to a beauti...