After an easy bus ride and a few hours on a large car ferry, we arrived on the east coast island of Ko Samui. We are greeted by rain, heavy rain and I discover my backpack has a raincover, cool, well apart from it being a very bright neon yellow ! According to the travel books we can avoid the south-west monsoon season if we skip over to the eastern side of Thailand, well, it didn't go to plan. We endured pretty much uninterrupted rain for five days, thank god we stayed in a hotel with cable :-) We initially stayed in Hat Lamai, a nice enough town, pretty beach and more than enough restaurants and bars (for some reason it is popular with the French). We stayed in the Bonny Hotel where the owner
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