Thursday (spent chilling) and Friday (spent travelling) to Koh Tao

Thursday was a day of nothing much to report - as our bungalow was SO hot and outside in the sun was even hotter (most of the time) we decided to have a day chilling out around the bungalow and reading.  It was lovely to spend time just doing, well, nothing!  Apart from 2 small puppies we were pretty much left to the peace and solitude of our bungalow.

Friday in contrast was another travelling day, you would have thought after now that we would be used to these sort of days, but hey no one is the same as any other so you are never quite prepared for what they will hold!  We checked out of our bungalow and went to the front desk to wait for our 'pick up' which we had booked to take us to the catamaran terminal; after check out we found that this had been cancelled...we didn't quite understand why but just went along with the hotel staff's plan of them driving us instead.

We arrived at the pier and let ourselves follow the standard 'asian' style rules of organisation...being that there is no organisation...or for that matter, any rules!  So, with our tickets in hand and bags labelled we boarded the boat and found a seat to make the 2 hour journey to Koh Tao. 

It was a pleasant enough journey, not too bumpy thankfully, and on leaving the boat we found our hotel rep who drove us the short distance to our Bungalows on Sairee beach on the west coast of Koh Tao.  The bungalows were lovely and the whole resort compact and picturesque...good job we had booked ourselves for a 7 night stay!!

Unfortunately (for Nicola's head the next morning) we then went out and experienced 'Happy Hour' Koh Tao style...first at Chopper's bar with 1/2 price Thai dinner and jugs of Chang, and then in Fizz the beach bar by our bungalow where we had a vodka bucket...ouch!!