Trouble in Paradise

So, we're in Koh Samui at the moment, having travelled from Phi Phi yesterday. Its beautiful here, I walked down Chaweng Beach this morning, listening to a bit of Fink while the waves lapped at my feet, admiring the scantily clad women and generally being a person that people back home will hate.

I'm a bit vexed though, we had a load of money stolen from us on the ferry over to the island, at least that's the only place we can think of where it could have happened. All three of us had money go missing from our bags, I got hit worst of all (typical) - all my sterling's gone and half my Thai currency. Ross and Rick both had a load of their Thai cash lifted as well. Its put something of a dampener on our morning.

There's not a huge amount we can do about it either. We reckon, because the bus we got from Krabi to Surat Thani then got on the ferry to Koh Samui with all the bags still on board, it would have given the drivers plenty of time to have a good old root through the nearest bags (which unfortunately happened to be ours because they went on last and came off first). I've read about it happening in the guide books, just completely slipped our minds as we were in such a good frame of mind after Phi Phi and let our guards down a bit. They left our passports though and left us enough money to get by, so I suppose we must be thankful for small mercies.

Anyway, on a brighter note, it looks like Samui is going to be really cool, if somewhat more sober than it would have been if theiving bus drivers hadn't complicated things. We're here for a week so finally we can settle for a bit and not have to concern ourselves with moving on straight away. Last night we were up until 4am befriending some Swedish travellers who are playing golf and poker to fund their journey, as well as a mentally unhinged Thai woman who was drunk and kept telling me her room number. Trust me though, you wouldn't have, not even you Stef.

Right, I'm going to go sort out my laundry. I've put a few photos on facebook, only a couple from Bangkok and The Kwai, off Rick's camera (I'm still rocking the disposable), so anyone who knows how to use it can see.

Its Sunday afternoon here right now, so I'll try to get on again tomorrow (its pretty easy now we're in Samui)

Have a good one folks

Peace

Jim