Day 216 (Thu 8 Feb) - Krabbi / Surat Thani
Up at 10 and packed our gear.
Went for a walk round town to buy a few bits and pieces including some camera filters and an underwater camera.
Back to the room to pick up our bags and headed off to a nearby cafe for a big breakfast. Headed over to the Jolly Jumper to wait for our bus that would take us to Surat Thani.
We had loads of time so spent it doing some work on the blog.
At 3.40pm bus turned up that took us to a bus depot about half an hour away. This bus depot was crawling with backpackers. We waited for about half an hour and then boarded a large comfy bus that would take us to Surat Thani.
Sometime later the bus stopped at a cafe and all the passengers were told to get off. No idea where we were but assumed we were in S.T.! Whilst we waited we could not help notice the exorbitant prices of food and drinks at the cafe; you even had to pay 5 baht just to take a pee. Clearly in cahoots with the bus company!
After an hour a woman screeched that those passengers heading to S.T. should follow her. We boarded another bus and about 40 mins later were dropped off at the train station that is some 15km West of S.T.
At the station we met an English couple Matt and Lucy who were two weeks into their travels. They were heading off round SE Asia with a view to working and possibly staying in NZ.
(They told a hilarious story of an ex colleague who had recently lost his job. The story is somewhat too vulgar for this publication but Sarb will gladly recount it to interested parties on his return. Suffice to say it involves a gay waiter, a straight cook, a cameraphone, an irate customer and Manchester's finest).
Our train should have arrived at 11.30pm but ended up arriving at 1am. Luckily the stations shops remained open so were able to buy crisps and beer.
When the train finally arrived we boarded and immediately went to sleep!
Went for a walk round town to buy a few bits and pieces including some camera filters and an underwater camera.
Back to the room to pick up our bags and headed off to a nearby cafe for a big breakfast. Headed over to the Jolly Jumper to wait for our bus that would take us to Surat Thani.
We had loads of time so spent it doing some work on the blog.
At 3.40pm bus turned up that took us to a bus depot about half an hour away. This bus depot was crawling with backpackers. We waited for about half an hour and then boarded a large comfy bus that would take us to Surat Thani.
Sometime later the bus stopped at a cafe and all the passengers were told to get off. No idea where we were but assumed we were in S.T.! Whilst we waited we could not help notice the exorbitant prices of food and drinks at the cafe; you even had to pay 5 baht just to take a pee. Clearly in cahoots with the bus company!
After an hour a woman screeched that those passengers heading to S.T. should follow her. We boarded another bus and about 40 mins later were dropped off at the train station that is some 15km West of S.T.
At the station we met an English couple Matt and Lucy who were two weeks into their travels. They were heading off round SE Asia with a view to working and possibly staying in NZ.
(They told a hilarious story of an ex colleague who had recently lost his job. The story is somewhat too vulgar for this publication but Sarb will gladly recount it to interested parties on his return. Suffice to say it involves a gay waiter, a straight cook, a cameraphone, an irate customer and Manchester's finest).
Our train should have arrived at 11.30pm but ended up arriving at 1am. Luckily the stations shops remained open so were able to buy crisps and beer.
When the train finally arrived we boarded and immediately went to sleep!
posted by Jo and Sarb at
2/08/2007 06:06:00 am
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