Day 11 Today was our 24th Wedding Anniversary and we had booked to go to the Lae Lay Grill Restaurant for dinner which is up on a hill nearby with a view across the water and good view of sunset. Before that though we had a fairly relaxing day, walking along the beach after breakfast, swimming in the sea and eating lunch at a nice restaurant just above the beach. (they had a 6.5 hour Happy 'Hour'!) They had curries for 100bht which I enjoyed. Lisa is not as kee...

Day 10 We are starting to get used to a 5:45 alarm. Stayed at the A List Hotel overnight and preordered breakfast for 6:30 in the dining room which was in fact waiting for us when we arrived. Hardly anyone else staying so had great service. Checked out and headed to the spot where the minibus leaves for Hatyai and there was one there so jumped on. 34 bht each for the trip which took about an hour. (bit over a $1.50) Can't grumble at that! Arrived at a differen...

Day 9 Arose at some ungodly hour, 5:15am I think it was as we had to be ready for the 6:00am pickup (I thought this was meant to be a holiday!) No breakfast of course and our minibus came at about 6:15 and took us to a spot in Krabi where we would meet another bus. On we got, it was the same type as the first one, just with different people on it. After a couple of hours we got to Trang where we changed buses again and then after another couple of hours we got t...

Day 8 After breakfast today we headed down to where you book tours and transport and booked a bus for Monday to Hatyai which is on Thailand's east coast as we wanted to meet up with Lisa's cousin, Nigel, who lives in Songkhla which is nearby to Hatyai. After buying some sandwiches for lunch we booked a Long Tail boat for a trip around to Railay Beach West. Although there is a metal ladder down the side of the long tail our embarkation was somewhat untidy! Blame ...

Day 7 We had decided to go for a walk before breakfast today so we headed down the beach to the walking track that goes over the hill towards the Centara Resort. Unfortunately this involves crossing the creek which could best be described as 'black water' . I suspect that most of the sewerage from the beachside resorts ends up in this creek which empties into the sea at the end of the beach. The smell is not too good but the flow was low and we were able to cros...