We woke up early in the morning for one last ride on the bike before returning it. After yesterday's pothole incident, I was terrified the convenience store girl was gonna notice some damage. Fortunately it was fine and i didn't have to pay extra. We spent the rest of the day travelling to Bangkok. firstly, we took a boat to Surantahi and then a couple of buses up north. During the bus journey up north, we stopped off at midnight as we did on the way down to Koh...

I woke up early in the morning (with yet another hang over), in order to get a quiet swim before everyone else got to the pool. Unfortunately I wasn't the only one with this plan. So... I decided to head down to the beach with Leo, a guy I met on the bus. We were going to take a massive swim to the beach next door, however as soon as we got in the water we were attacked by a swarm of ticks. We ran out, screaming in agony whilst these ticks were still clinging on ...

Having got home at 3 in the morning, we spent most of the day recovering. I got up around 10 and met some cool 30ish guys and girls from leeds and oz. They'd met in Cambodia and decided to go around together. Using the hair-of-the-dog technique to cure the hangover (essentially, just drinking more), we spent the rest of the day chilling by the pool and the sea just recovering from the previous night. Later that night, I played ring-of-fire and 'I have never..'...

At about 6am in the morning, the nice, relaxed bus journey came to an abrupt stop and everything went mad. The following happened in the space of 1 minute: The lights came on on the bus A Thai woman came upstairs shouting "Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, Koh Phi Phi, Pengang etc..." We rushed off the bus, gathering all our stuff. Picked up our backpacks which had been dumped on the pavement. Noticed Ad sitting in a Tuk Tuk, thinking he was on his way to ...