Back to Bottle Beach - 5th February ... we haggle a taxi pick-up, although instead of leaving once we're in, the driver goes off touting for more passengers to maximise his profit.We relax and enjoy the sunshine, while he rounds up a small group of backpackers and a Russian family with a six month old baby.Eventually we bounce off along the roads around the island, the Russians alternating breastfeeding the baby with arguing with the driver. Dave and I get drop...

Sunday 20th January - Kho Phan Ngan WARNING - Rant ahead! We are awakened at 6am by the brusque bus driver, and hustled unceremoniously off the coach and onto a kerb to wait for a truck to take us to the ferry port.It is at this point that things go pear shaped... we retrieve our rucksacks from the belly of the bus, and it looks like they have been tampered with - my bag has all of its clips undone, and both of our padlocks have been inspected... it feels a bit...