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Today was our trip to James Bond Island. It was going to be a long boat ride to the island, so I decided to take two sea sick tablets. Although it is great at ensuring I don’t get sea sick, they do cause drowsiness. It was a one hour drive to the pier and we were picked up from the resort by car at 7:30am. Within five minutes of being the car, I had fallen asleep and didn’t wake up until we arrived at the pier. Read more
Yesterday, we spent the first half of the day relaxing at the resort, we were tired from the Koh Phi Phi tour. We have been very happy with our choice of resort. It is away from the hustle and bustle of Phuket Town and Patong, but we’re still close enough to go there to shop and experience some of the controlled chaos.
I have been fascinated by the Thai language and have been trying to learn as much as I can. I have been asking waiters, shop keepers and our driver Mr Game, how to say different things in Thai. Unfortunately, my short term memory is pretty shocking, so as hard as I try and say the words in my head, I forget. Read more
I am going to keep this post short. Because I am pretty tired! Today we went to Phi Phi Island. We woke up nice and early, had breakfast and were then driven to a pier twenty minutes from our resort.
There was about ten people on our speed boat, including a couple from Adelaide that we had met at Pat’s Home Thai Cooking.
It was raining heavily at the beginning of that day and improved to a drizzle in the afternoon. One thing that I learned today was that Phi Phi Island is actually a cluster of islands, not just one. Read more
Sawadee Krap! We woke up at 7:15am today, which would have been fine, if we didn’t have to be at the lobby by 7:30am to leave for the day’s adventures. We skipped breakfast and made it just in time. We were driven to a location fifteen minutes away, where we were then greeted by Tam. “My name is Tam, like Tim Tam. Welcome to the land of smiles” He said as he grinned ear to ear. We sat and waited as other people from our group arrived from different hotels.
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Today we attended our first activity that we booked through the travel agent – Pat’s Home Thai Cooking. We were both excited to learn the different techniques in cooking one of the worlds most recognised cuisines, Thai food. We were picked up from the lobby at around 9am, after another big breakfast at the resort.
A lady was driving the car. She didn’t talk much and wasn’t very confident in the traffic. She was tooting her horn and yelling a bit, which we hadn’t experienced when driving with Mr Game.
In the back of the car there were brochures for ‘Pat’s Home Thai Cooking’. On the front was a photo of a smiling Thai lady, it was Pat. Bree and I had the same thought, is the lady driving us Pat? If so, she isn’t as smiley in person and she didn’t introduce herself.
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It is now 10:30pm Phuket time (2:30am Melbourne time). We have had another fantastic day and felt that I needed to blog about it to make sure I never forget. Bree is in bed trying to sleep. I am pretty annoying in the sense that I like to wake her and talk to her. Anyway, she can rest, while I write.
To be honest, we were a little worried this morning. We woke up to rainy weather. It had been such fantastic weather the last couple of days and to see it rainy and gloomy was a bit of a shock. At 7:30am we went to the buffet breakfast. Yesterday we were a little shy and went pretty easy on the food. But today my plan was simple. Eat as much breakfast as I could and delay lunch to as late as possible. I had waffles, eggs, bacon and danishes. It was pretty awesome, even though I am not normally a breakfast person.
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Breana and I left for Thailand at 11pm Melbourne time. Flying with Thai Airways, we arrived at Bangkok at 4am Bangkok time. The flight was good, there was a fair bit of turbulence at times, but there was always plenty of warning by the captain. I planned on spending the nine hour flight listening to a long audiobook. Unfortunately, I fell asleep shortly after turning it on. My legs struggled to fit under the seat, so every time the flight attendant would go past with a trolley, they would hit my leg, waking me up. It was okay though, as I preferred being awake. On the plane, they fed us well. We had Thai Green Chicken Curry, as well as a stir fry.
When we touched down at Bangkok, I couldn’t believe how smooth the landing was. I barely felt it. We then had a 5 hour wait for our connecting flight to Phuket. While waiting we met some fellow Melbournians, a mother and son, also going to Phuket. There wasn’t much to do while waiting for the plane, so we spent the time sharing stories and working out which gate we were meant to be at.
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