Ko Chiang

A 6 hour bus journey brought us to Trat bus station. i throughly enjoyed the journey watching Thai soap operas and depressing love song Karaoke.
We stopped at a rest stop on the way and i used a squat toilet successfully! Go me, Terry was very proud, as you can imagine.
we then had a one hour sawngthaew journey to the ferry port, followed by a one hour ferry journey followed by another one hour sawngthaew journey to Nature Resort on lonely beach. i was starving and a little cranky at this stage.
we stayed in one of nature beach huts that night and moved down the beach to siam huts for the rest of our trip. Nature Beach resort is more fun and has better food but had no air-con huts available and i was afraid of the possibility of cockroaches.
our current hut is 400 baht a night which works out at about 8 euro a night.
we rented a wee bike for 2 days which only cost 6 euro for the two days but cut out on steep hills, that i then had to walk up. lovely stuff.
we went spinning around the island the first day and got hit on the head by very large insects. especially poor terry. i am not sure his head will ever be the same again!
Terry chilled on the beach and enjoyed swimming while i had a nap. as he decided to air dry before reapplying sunscreen he now has a lovely red colour on his face and chest. he is lovely and warm.
yesterday afternoon we did a cookery course in one of the most stunning settings. i forgot the to bring the little booklet we got but we cooked pad thai, two kinds of soup, curry and sticky rice with mango and ate it overlooking a lagoon watching the sunset. i will put up the website for the school later but big thanks to Nam for such a lovely afternoon.
we have spent the evenings chilling with sue, Chrissie and Johannes at nature resort drinking big beer Chang and watching the fire show.
today we are chilling and catching up on e-mails and stuff.
some of my skin has gone blue from the sarong i was wearing yesterday. and i am having difficulty washing it off. also, i am not as prepared for roughing it as i was a few years ago, but apparently i have to get over it!
thats it really. it is a beautiful island. i am not sure about the rest of Thailand but Neasa and Laura would love Ko Chiang for the shopping and lovely resorts but would laura would hate all the cats and Neasa would hate all of the dogs.
Love ye all. talk soon.