Spent a couple of hours studying the 'Lonely Planet' this morning and then went out and promptly got ripped! 400 baht for a 5 min. boat ride and then a 40 baht journey on a tuk tuk to a couple of retail outlets. It wouldn't have been so bad if these were not two of the things the guide specifically warned us against! It was so bad all we could do was laugh and go and lay down in our hostel room for a while. God, this back packing life is tough.
After we had recovered we went by river taxi (30 baht for half an hour!) to the railway station, we met this really nice man on the way who said his daughter lived in England and the station was shut but not to worry for only 20 baht (each) he could get us a tuk tuk to a really helpful tourism office, how kind so we got into...... no actually with a nudge from Sue I cottoned on at last and with profuse apologies to him for all his trouble we walked round the corner to a bustling staion full of people and queues at the ticket office. No train tomorrow, they were all full!! but a really helpful man who knew someone who lived in England showed us to a tourist office (you can guess our scepticism - well Sue's) but it turned out he could help so we have booked a coach trip to Surat Thani and then on to Ko Pha Ngan as well as booking two nights in a bungalow on the beach for only 3100 baht(about 45 pounds) - we shall see. In theory it leaves at 1900 hours tomorrow night!!
Found the hostel 'At Home' that Alasdair suggested so when we finally come back to Bangkok, feeling wiser and poorer that looks like the place, only 380 baht per night(just over 5 pounds). Actually I don't know why I keep doing the math(s) for you, the exchange rate is about 70 baht to the pound, do it yourselves! I think we will know we have arrived when we start thinking in baht, when we get back home still thinking in baht the shock will probably kill us, 210 baht for one beer!
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