This morning we got packed up, we’ve got good at this now so don’t need to think about it until the day we leave! David was complaining that he had a sore throat so I offered him a ‘throat lozenger’ little did he know they were those ricotta sort that are a natural laxatives! It did the trick in soothing his throat though 😂After breakfast we got a lift in the back of the pick up down to the harbour for a ferry to Koh Samui, as soon as we got off there was a lady there offering tickets for a different company at an earlier time, at first we were a bit dubious but it seemed to be pretty busy and at the same cost we just went for it, it saved us waiting 40minutes. The boat was freezing, we ended up sitting apart because David wanted the leg room seats but it was directly under the air con, and this was just not happening for me. Took 2 hours to get there via a quick stop at Koh Phangan. Once we arrived we had the task of getting a taxi, we should have booked the taxi along with the ferry which worked out much cheaper than a local taxi, but not to worry, a bit of sweet talking with one of the minibus drivers from the ferry service got us to the hotel for cheaper than a local taxi. He will probably pocket the cash but it got us from A to B. As David popped the last 2 ‘throat lozengers’ into his mouth, and me realising that in the space of about 3-4hours he had demolished the pack I had to tell him their natural side effect. His face dropped and he started complaining immediately that he needed the toilet! O well they worked in shutting him up for a few hours!
We were too early to check in at the hotel she we dumped our bags and went for a walk. It seemed a lot more touristy here with many stalls and knock off goods. I was on the hunt for some sunglasses as the lens had fallen out for f mine with the frame cracked in on the snorkelling trip.
As we walked we found an outlet area with lots of sport shoes in, the discounts weren’t great and we were conscious of getting things packed in our bags so we didn’t bother. We instead walked around the cheap stalls with all the usual stuff, David somehow found a tv with the football on and he was stuck here for 15minutes whilst I looked around for some cheap sunglasses…. I didn’t find any, they were all so wonky and naff, even they were only about £3 I still couldn’t bring myself to buy them! In the end we gave up and settled in a backpackers bar for the afternoon. Some decent food and a few beers later we were ready to head back and get checked in.
Nice we had checked in we both completely KO’ d for a good few hours, both of us absolutely dead to the world until sunset! Must have been the travel, heat and the beer with full tummies. David said it was the best sleep he had ever had.
Our hotel is surrounded by posh 5star resorts and restaurants to go with them along the beach. We decided to f#*k it and go for a slap up meal in some nice clothes, brushed hair the lot!! After scouring online, we settled on an Italian, nearly on the beach but not quite as all the beach ones really were out of budget and mainly sold fish! We walked the short distance to Prego, David ordered his not so vegetarian lasagna, his ham and cheese toastie at lunch clearly leading him a stray. I ordered a black truffle risotto. We went all out and even ordered a starter of garlic bread, and I treated myself to white wine whilst David got an ice bucket for his beer! The bread arrived with baked garlic and pesto, it was devoured, I ate so much garlic I knew I would stink the next day. Around 15 minutes later the actual starter of garlic bread arrived…. we had mistaken the first lot for our starter but that was on the house 😂 god help the person sat next to me on the plane tomorrow! That’s when the treat ended, the food arrived together, mine looked kind of strange, very creamy, smelt very cheesy. I immediately thought it was wrong, I had 2 spoonfuls and knew that it was wrong, I was sure it was the 4cheese risotto not the black truffle. And sure enough the next thing the apologies came and it was whipped away. I think every member of staff apologised and said they would make it again, but he new one arrived over minutes later, once David had finished all of his food, and I was on my second glass of wine. His was the theme of the holiday, eating at different times but we didn’t expect it from a 5 star restaurant, not at western prices! However they couldn’t have apologised enough. David kept telling me to put my foot down but I was playing happy customer until the bill came, I was of the mindset they were more likely to help you if your polite, and we all experienced he embarrassment of so,done kicking off when the Canadian did at the full moon party! The bill came and they had knocked 10% off, not really good enough but we let it slide and paid, it was the gesture and everyone makes mistakes, just a shame it was at our one off slap up meal in 2 months!
After the meal we walked along the beach in the same mindset, looking for a decent beach cocktail bar. We had to walk a little way, all the restaurants were really nice, had lights embedded in the sand, small tents over each table with candles, typical honeymoon standards….a long way from our honeymoon style! We came across a pop up beach cocktail bar with huge bean bags fairy lights. We picked a ‘honeymoon’ cocktail here and just sat and watched the stars and reflected on the holiday. Top5’s in each category etc which we will write once all of our experiences are done. We even saw a shooting star which was the first for us both!
Tomorrow final stop Chiang Mai.
South East Asia 2019 