Tuesday 19th February 2008

Before we start, I just want to say... TODAY WAS A NIGHT - MARE! But even when you have one of those in Thailand it's nothing like the ones at home, so i'm not going to moan. Our day started when the alarm went off at about 8am. I couldn't wake up, which was ironic because I just couldn't get to sleep last night. I think we finally dropped off at almost 5am. When I dragged myself out of bed and found Nikki sat on our balcony, I remembered where we were and everything was ok again. We went for breakfast and then hung around until 12pm, when a taxi took us to the pier at Thong Sala. Rather annoyingly (remember, i'm not moaning), we got to the pier at about 12.35pm and the boat had left a couple of minutes before. There would be others this afternoon, but they were more expensive... d'oh!

We got to the island of Ko Tao this afternoon and, once we'd collected our bags from the boat, we were bundled into a taxi. The taxi took us to an area called Sai Ri, where we didn't really want to stay - i'm not sure how we ended up there!? We had a look around anyway, to see if we could find anywhere to stay, but our hearts weren't in it and so we jumped into another taxi and headed to the South of the island to a place called Chalok Baan Koa Bay. Before we'd left Sai Ri, i'd rang a guest house and they said they had a 'lovely' room for only 600 Baht. When we arrived, they first told us it was 700 Baht, and then when we reminded them it was 600 they showed us two rooms. The first was crap and we said we'd have the second one (which was only slightly better)... to be told it was 2,200 Baht! Plus, neither were near the beach, so we said NO WAY HOSAY! I sat in their reception area while Nikki went off on foot in search of somewhere else to stay. We'd got off the boat at just before 3pm and it was now after 5pm... we were not happy (but still not moaning).

Super Wife came back after about 20 minutes and had found us somewhere to stay. It was a small place in one corner of the beach and only cost 300 Baht, which is the cheapest we've paid in ages... so things were looking up. Our bungalow is on a small hill and the views of the bay and ocean are brilliant! This evening we went out for some food in a small place before walking back in the dark and sitting in our little beach-hut having a chat.

We're meeting Mum and Pops in... 10 days!