Day 29 Van to Surat Thani We are leaving Phi Phi Island today. We wish we could stay – but to do that we needed to book up earlier; full or expensive now. That’s the trade with being flexible… sometimes you can’t get what you discover you want!
Read MoreDay 24 Hello Paradise We get picked up at 11.30 in a truck and taken to the ferry port. We booked the 1pm ferry, Thai time, so it leaves at 1.30 and takes 1.5 hours… not 1 hour as advertised.
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Day 19 Chomview kids park We have breakfast and swim for a couple of hours before Pete grabs the tuk tuk couple from next door. The driver, our bags, me, Pete and Mrs Tuk Tuk jump in.. she’s blagging a lift to see friends. No English is spoken
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Day 16 Up early (for us) to run and then drop off the moped. We are heading south today to our next stay at the shit place we already did a recce to – We Xiao near Nin beach.
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Day 11 Godzilla! Pete is woken by half a dozen cockerels from about 3am. I hear them at about 6.30 (earplugs). I go and watch them and their babies, crawling around a building site behind the hotel. Think he’d rather they were on a spit!
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Day 9 Thai time! So off to Koh Lanta today at 11.30 – door to door mini van. We enjoy a few hours at the hotel and our van appears at 11.40. We dive in – we are first..never a good sign.
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Day 4 – The Land of Smiles. Unbelievable… we still don’t sleep. Bed too hard. Head still wired to uk time. But we are travelling today. We manage to get up in time to make checkout by 11am. Zombies.
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Day 1 – Singapore again! Wow another 13.5 hour flight and we are back where we started a year ago!! Landing in Singapore we are so much more relaxed than last year, and head for the metro. We jump off at Aljunied. We are staying in Galang in the red […]
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Day 86 – Farewell Vietnam After a great nights sleep onboard ship in Halong Bay, we decline the 6.30am visit to the caves as we’ve seen enough of caves. So it’s a lie-in! We don’t make 6am tai chi either.
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