Saturday 14 April Up at 6 for a very easy transfer to Phuket Airport and then a smooth flight to Bangkok. Bags were left at the Left Luggage area and then we began a series of train journeys / skytrain journeys to Chatachat market. Chatachat is a hot, bustling, busy, frantic, edgy market full to the brim with small stalls. It only operates at the weekends where hundreds upon hundreds of local traders come to sell their wares. June and I had been pr...

Friday 13 April - Songkran Up early and at 6.45am June and I were walking hand in hand along the beach as the sun rose. Once again breakfast was a disjointed and unpleasant affair…. This time they took Junes order and then b*****ed of leaving Shelley and I wondering what was happening. I called the waiter back in an attempt to place my order but her misinterpreted this as us wanting the bill….???? We hadn't even ordered ???? Another episode in th...

  Thursday 12 April We returned to our most reliable restaurant for Breakfast - Shelley is loving the fresh fruit each morning. And then back onto the beach at Kata Noi. Kata Noi is the smallest of the beaches on this Western coast but we have found it is the quietest and also has the best snorkeling. We snorkelled twice, the second time Shelley and I ventured a little too far out and Juney got into a minor panic as she couldn't see us. We were fine but it...

Thursday 12 April We returned to our most reliable restaurant for Breakfast - Shelley is loving the fresh fruit each morning - Lots of bananas and Mangoes. And then back onto the beach at Kata Noi. Kata Noi is the smallest of the beaches on this Western coast but we have found it is the quietest and also has the best snorkeling. We snorkelled twice, the second time Shelley and I ventured a little too far out and Juney got into a minor panic as she couldn't ...

Wednesday 11 April We tried breakfast at an alternative restaurant this morning and wished we hadn't! Clearly the menu / language barrier had been met and when we thought we were ordering Cornflakes and fruit - the waitress was telling us that they had run out of cornflakes and fruit…and so after waiting and waiting we eventually realised something was wrong. Ended up having the French toast purely because that was the only item on the menu we recognized tha...