We had breakfast with M&D before catching a cab to the airport and checking in for the first leg: Krabi to
Saturday, January 30, 2010
We go to a land down under – 6th – 7th January 2010
Last day in Thailand – 5th January 2010
The boys were surprisingly up for the craic in the morning so it was down to the beach at 9am, where we had the best of the sun (enjoyed from a shady spot!) and our last dip in the sea. It was lucky too as the rain came by early afternoon and cleared everyone. We went for a siesta and had a pretty relaxed night after packing our bags for the big trip down under the next day.
Journey of hell – 4th January 2010
Still not recovered for the festivities our journey full circle is nearly complete. We set off at 6am with the promise of arriving in Krabi at 2pm where we were then going to head back to Ao Nang to meet some friends (Maurice & Donna) from
BACK TO THE ISLAND – 19th December 2010 – 3rd January 2010
We had booked the night bus/ferry back to Koh Phangan for 6pm that evening and spent the day trying to shop but failed miserably. When all else fails what do you do? Have a beer and sit and watch the world go by….we ended up having several and meeting a guy who we’d first befriended in Laos and we’d been bumping into pretty frequently all the way down…..come to think of it he did appear to be almost skulking in an alleyway when I spotted him!!!
We caught our bus and proceeded to have the best craic on a night bus ever! Had a really cool group (down the back, of course!) and so the many pit stops were used to replenish the stock of beers. It was a pretty crazy journey taking about 18 hours but we finally made it back to Koh Phangan and our resort of luxury for Christmas – Sarikantang. Our friend Lesley was on her way back home from
Christmas was surreal but lovely – I had the proper roast dinner in an English pub but Liam opted for PASTA! I obviously had the obligatory Coghlan Christmas brekkie of scrambled eggs and a cup of tea, which was great and Liam had cornflakes….you would never have guessed we were in Thailand! Went out that night for the Christmas party dressed up in all sorts of Santa clobber – the beach was packed (or so we thought, NY was still to come, yikes!). Took it pretty easy after that hanging out with a lovely couple from the epic journey that were staying on the island too. Really glad we splashed out on our room cos it was LUSH!
Bangkok – 18th December 2009
We arrived in
I must say (Aileen) that I love