Oh dear last night we had the worst night of the trip so far. Firstly there are far too many ex-pat, dirty old men in this area (south Thailand/Malaysia) who are here for totally the wrong reasons. To be honest its started to get very annoying. The walls in our cell like room (no windows) were paper thin (well plywood thin). At maybe three or four o'clock in the morning our neighbour awoke us with some shouting, F***ing this and that. We listened for a while and ...

Thankfully during the night we hadn't been attacked by any monster rats decided we'd get an extra early breakfast. As suspected we joined yet more middle aged, ex-pat males in the guesthouse café. The breakfast was pretty decent and cheap and also allowed us to clear the remaining Thai Bhart. As we sat there our thoughts about the place proved reality. We'd been thinking the night before this place was a little dodgy/weird and as we sat there we watched the prev...

So the trip to Hadyai wasn't going to be too bad as far these journeys go hopefully. It started with a minibus to the pier where we soon boarded a boat to the mainland, but not before some deep fried chicken from a street stall for breakfast, lovely jubbly!The thing is with transport here there is absolutely no organisation or common sense to it. We were armed with out stupid multicolour stickers on our chest handed to us by the boat company. We arrived at the m...

The big plan for today was quite honestly to do nothing, unfortunately that wasn't how it was going to turn out.We started with a little breakfast in the resorts bar/restaurant then thought we'd look into getting off the island tomorrow and head into Malaysia. The trip to Malaysia is not a particularly easy one as not many seem to do it and is currently a terrorist threat in the south of Thailand. The most direct route is using the train but first we had to book ...

We checked into our third lot of accommodation on the island this morning and set off out straight away as today we decided to hire a Jeep so we could see a bit more of the island. We spent the morning driving around stopping off for swimming and food it was good to get out and see the other towns on the island. When we arrived back in the afternoon we went for a swim in our pool and headed back out in the car. We drove up to the waterfalls but as it was getting ...