Saturday 28th June. Ko Samui
We arrived back in Ko Samui and headed back to the places we had stayed at previously in a minibus. If anyone’s interested I stayed at Chaweng Beach for seven hundred baht a night, that’s ten pounds fifty at the current exhange rates. It was a great room with air-con, large well-stocked fridge and snacks (although I never know whether that’s a good thing or not), cable T.V. (ditto) etc. The staff were very friendly and there was a nice beach bar (called the Sunlight pub I think) which had a pool table, sun-beds and hosted fire shows. The lads stayed at the Island Resort, two places down. It was slightly more pricey and upmarket but more spread out in gardens with a lovely pool by a bar which over-looked the beach.
I spent the day buying a few essentials like new headphones and speakers (hmm) for my Ipod and then sorted a few bits online. I also booked my flight back to Bangkok for the following day. In the evening I had a drink at the beach bar, miraculously beat one of the bar staff at pool and then headed into town to meet Steve and Julian. We went and played pool and had a cocktail. Steve headed back and Julian and I went passed where we were staying to a bar with live music for a final drink. Neither of us had really ventured past where we were staying in this direction but the bar was pretty cool and we wondered why we hadn’t.