I've finally stopped being lazy and decided to update this journal! From Malaysia we got a bus upto Koh Samui, a lovely all day bus journey. The ferry ride across was so pretty - the landscape was so beautiful! We arrived in a powercut so had slight problems trying to find any accomodation (it was dark, we were tired, and the taxi dropped us in a random place!), but we eventually found a nice guesthouse by Lamai beach. We were quite surprised at how big the island was - we've been used to tiny island that have no cars and you stroll along the beachfront to find bars and restaurants, but this island had cars, roads, airports - very daunting!! The weather was pretty rubbish while we were there so we had Thai massages, wandered around,
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