After leaving Dag last night, we grabbed a quick bite to eat and headed back to the hotel to pack, had a cuppa, watched Fridays episode of Eastenders (sad I know) and finally fell asleep.

I think the accidental lay in was a big mistake as we only slept for a couple of hours and then decided to watch a few episodes of the Twilight Zone.  I think that I must have dropped off in the 3rd episode and suddenly woken by the phone at 5am only to find Si still watching TV with his headphones on.

After a shower and breakfast we caught our taxi to the airport, checked in only to find that the max luguage allowance is 30kg per person  ..we had just on a 100kg, 2100 baht excess to pay  ..but we managed to haggle them down to 1500 baht (£30) ..thank God we flew business class, else it would have been only 20kg allowance each.

Anyway, we had a great flight, collected our bags, dropped them at the ferry terminal and now sat in the cafe opposite typing to you guys 😀

The ferry leaves at 1.30pm which should get into Koh Tao around 4.30pm where we’ll be collected by stars Alan & Heidi (Ex landlord/lady)

JD

Last night we headed for “Dosa King” where we had the following delicious vegetarian meal (just for you Liz, here is the description!)

After eating late, we went for a couple of beers with Dag, and headed to bed.

Unfortunately, I could not sleep (not adjusted to the time yet.) and stayed awake until 4am watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone while Jen snored!. I eventually slept, and we both woke at 2.30pm , much to our surprise!!!

We quickly got ourselves together and rushed onto the Sky Train to go to Chatuchak market.

To try and describe Chatuchak Market is going to be difficult, the place is not just big, its inconceivably big. Think of a peanut in the middle of the galaxy and that would be a good description of us standing in the market. There are 15,000 stalls each selling clothes, food, home furnishings.. generally anything you could ever need.

We spent quite a few hours walking past stall after stall in amazement and confusion. There is so much choice that you forget what you wanted in the first place.

We eventually grabbed 2 pairs of Crocs (plastic sandals… very comfy), some cotton trousers for Jen, cotton trousers for me, cotton shirt for me, and some bikini shorts for Jen. All in all we spent just over £10… !!!

Nearly dinnertime, so we hooked up with Dag for a goodbye drink and grabbed a quick bite to eat before going back to the hotel to pack for tomorrow.

We leave at 6am to head to the airport and arrive on Koh Tao sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Till then…

SD

Woke early and whether it be from the aircon, Si seemed to have a sore throat but nothing too severe thankfully.   

Later on that morning we met up with Dag and headed down town to a massage place run by the blind/partially sighted.  We just had an hour session to get a taster but I think we might go back for a two hour session tomorrow as it was so good & ridiculously cheap 😀    ..Anyway, check Si out in his massage gear ;-D

On leaving the massage palour we took a leisurely stroll, taking in all the smells, sights  & chaos around whilst feeling on top of the world and then just by chance noticed rows of restuarants advertising  Shark Fin  …then on closer inspection their window displays were just fins in all shapes & sizes.  We all found this pretty disgusting and upsetting.

Now lets move onto shopping, Bangkok is brilliant!!  …you can buy everything and anything dirt cheap if you’ve got the time and energy to bargain the day away.   So far we’ve bought tshirts, a phone (as i couldnt unlock my prototype) & a couple Thai sim cards.  Si’s been for a haircut and we’ve drank quite a few Singha 🙂

Tonight we off for a good veggie meal, a few beers and perhaps some more shopping

Laters

JD x