Oh what a thing to do, Cos you were all yellow

Last visit to Bangkok...finally! Just another stop gap before we head off to Koh Phagnan. It was the King's birthday...and all the Thai people were out in force in their yellow 'we love the King' tee shirts. It was a bizarre sight to see, hundreds of people wandering around in the same yellow tee shirts.

The bus to Koh Phagnan was an all-nighter plus some since the damn thing had a lot of problems going up hills...or small inclines is a better description! Regardless of the engine continually cutting out the diver was very persistent at revving the engine until everyone on it thought it might explode, instead it just cut out again. A quick pitstop at the next garage and away we go again.

We finally make it to the coast and have to wait for our boat to take us to the island. Having not slept too well on the bus me and Ayms definitely had our morning faces on - the ones where we know we are both too tired to make conversation. LUCKILY some lone traveller appeared and was pretty chatty considering it was 6am, she didn't quite get the whole silent vigil thing but soon enough she gave up and went and found some more lively human beings to converse with.

The boat was insanely uncomfortable...we have been talking lately about how much easier travelling must be these days and in fact we are very lucky...but sofas and cushions would have gone down a lot better than the plastic chairs they actually installed on the boat! It was also a lot longer journey than I had anticipated, I imagined it would have been swimmable (i.e. you might be able to see the island from the shore) but no, two hours later and STILL there is no sign of our beautiful beach hut.