We island hopped back to Koh Samui for a few days and went to Lamai Beach which is Seedy Central! Compared to Koh Phangan this is a shock to the system, but our flight was from here so we thought it worth a few more nights stay, especially as I needed to buy a suitcase with wheels. I am now the proud owner of a Monster Rolling Case. I dumped the old backpack in a bin, no tears were shed! We flew to Phuket and stayed in Kamala, a lovely small resort which bore t...

We arrived back in Koh Phangan qualified open water divers and needing some R & R. We headed for Hat Yao and to our suprise met some of our dive buddies (Alex, Helen, Raj, Harrissa, Tom and Sarah) it must be the place to be as half the class of '06 was there. Didn't do much the first few days except sun bathe, drink and eat BBQ's on the beach. Finally there were just 4 of us left and we decided to hire a jeep to go and see the waterfalls. 2 and half hours later (...

WEll, I am sure you will all be pleased to know we passed our PADI open water diver course yesterday! We have had to turn the old grey matter on for the last 4 days as we have been back to the classroom to study for our final exam, not to mention going to the bottom of the sea with little more than a ton of equipment weighing us down! We tried out in the pool first of all, the first thing I thought was "I am going to drown" then I realised I could breathe and the...

30 mins from Koh Samui by boat and we were in Koh Phangan. The boat jouney wasn't very exciting as we were asleep for it all - knocked out by our travel sickness pills. Our bungalow was 10ft from the beach, what a view. You can check out the photos when I put them on. Hat Salat was very much quieter than previous beach resorts, we were the only 2 left in the bar at 9pm on our 1st night. This lent itself to some quality chill out time, plenty of sun bathing and sn...

A quick flight from Bangkok saw us land on a slightly overcast Koh Samui....we decided to stay in the busiest resort Chaweng for a couple of nights, and ended up in "Seascape Resort". Right on the beach with a pool aswell! The minute we unpacked our-increasingly heavy-back packs the sun popped out and it was scorching! Out came the factor 30 and we settled down for some serious sun worship. The hotel was full of very brown Italian and French people in speedos. Th...