One night in Bangkok

And you've got yourself a very predictable blog title. However, although we are about to spend one night here this blog is actually nothing to do with Bangkok as we have only just arrived on a night bus from Koh Tao. But that bit comes later, for now lets start at the beginning.

In the beginning
There was rain -and quite a lot of it! After staying one night in Hat Yao we set off in the morning for Ko Lanta. Rather than book transport all the way there we decided to use public transport in an attempt to save money. After a taxi, bus, taxi, bus, minibus, boat, minibus, boat, minibus, van journey taking twice as long as the straight through option we were somewhat questioning the wisdom of the morning decision. Calculating our savings to be about 50p concluded lesson 1 of travel in Thailand -Just book a ticket all the way to your destination cheapskate!
In Koh lanta it rained, we got very wet driving around on a motorbike and then it rained some more.

Millions of beaches (beaches for me)
Beaches come in a can, they were put there by a man in a factory down town. Anyroad, I digress, after 3 nights of rain in Ko lanta we headed north to Krabi where it rained and we were starting to think that coming to Thailand in the monsoon season was probably not the best plan in the world. However on our 2nd day in Railey (near Krabi) the rain finally abated and we had 4 days of good weather to enjoy the views, walking, climbing, kayaking and beaches in the area.
After that it was a switch over to the East sieeeede to Koh Phanghan (you may have noticed that i can't quite decide whether to use Ko or Koh before the islands name and i doubt i ever will as I'm not sure Thai people have even decided yet but anyway I'm getting side-tracked again. right Phanghan. As neither myself nor Emma are very good at doing nothing on beaches we decided we decided to keep moving around in order to see more of the island. So for the 5 nights on Phangan we stayed at 4 different beaches as well as passing a fair few others on the way. Oh dear i forgot to close the bracket) and we seem to have doubly decided along the way, nevermind i think mistakes add character to a blog.

Dancing in the moonlight
Our last night on Koh Phanghan coincided with the full moon party in Hat Rin. It is basically a big ol' beach full of people with different types of music and various rather dangerous fire shows including drunken people walking across fire and drunken people trying to skip with a giant burning skipping rope. They say that the event usually attracts between 8 and 30 thousand people, sadly the crowd just wouldn't stand still for me to count them.
After Phanghan we moved up to Ko Tao for a few nights. The plan had been to do some diving but cost/time/if i do a padi now when will i actually ever need it considerations meant that we settled for a boat trip around the island with a fair whack of snorkeling mixed in. We also hired a motorbike to explore Tao's rater dodgy roads. Apart from that we just relaxed in the islands' relaxed atmosphere.

Yesterday morning we left the room to John the baby gecko and headed up to Bangkok. And here we are. There are a few more photos on the website.
xx Matt xx