13th august 2007. koh samui to pucket.

got up lazyed around the pool today. as i have to get a bus to pucket at aroudn 13:00. i was going to go to krabi, but they wanted me to get a 9am bus. yeah ok. asked what they had in the afternoon and pucket came up.

so off we go then. i booked a ferry off koh samui, then a bus down to pucket. or what i thought was a bus. anyway meet to guys on the ferry who were nice, they were off to bangkok. It was quite strange one was scottish and one was irish. so we near had the british isles. need a welsh, but did we really !!!!!

This trip was a strange one, i got a couple carrier to a bigger proper bus, but we went passed the ferry to get there, we then got on the bus, which took us to the ferry i just passed, like a 30sec drive. Then we had to get off the bus to get on the ferry, took a ferry ride. got back on the bus, for about 30mins. and was then thrown into a people carrier, which took me for about 5 mins. then into another people carrier, which took me abuot 10min to another one. Then this people carrier took me all the way down to pucket.

OMG i was like traped in a 8 person people carrier, which took me for about 5 hours. now i have a rucksack on my lap, aswell as my guitar. And fuck all room. it was a nightmare, then the bloke infront decided he wanted to put his chair back as he was at the front and he could already stretch his legs out. Well being british he wasn't comfrotable as i was damming my well anythign into his chair as he was making me even more uncomfortable. Then as if it couldn't get any worse the thai guy nexts to me decided he wants to sleep and will jam his knee into my leg.

What a great 4/5 hour trip.

anyway finally got to pucket and i am staying in pucket town. now i was told they would drop me in pucket town. nah not so easy. It turns out they are dropping me off at the tesco out side of pucket town. fucking great.

lucky i had written down a phase in thai that i can say to a taxi and that should get me to my hostel. Oh yeah did i say it is monsoon season down in pucket and its pouring down with rain.
anyway i got a taxi,. from tesco not as hard as i thought, and he took me to the hostel. yeah i have arrived.

so before i even got to the reception. someone is shouting ian ian ian at me. OMG it was micheal the bloke i went to the full moon party with. dam i knew he might be in pucket, but didn't expect to meet him this soon. and fuck me i am in his dorm with him.
how cool it that. Only problem is that micheal i only here for one night. nevermind nice to see you again micheal. and will defo hook up in singapore with you and chris get the guys back together.

so straight into a dorm rom which i have not been in for weeks now. And i meet two lovely people in the space of 2mins. jo from germany and abi from uk, we all went out for dinner, well tried to get dinner, but all the places where shut as it was now 11pm. so went to the night market next door, to our hostel for a few bits, of bbq chicken pork and no idea what it was. jo intorduced us to some sticky rice, which they cook in a bamboo. not bad but really sticky and sweet as hell, so i didn't have much.

oh well micheal is off tomorrow and i will be hanging round with abi and jo. they already have motorbike and i will get one. the roads on pucket look great compared to what i have been driving on.