01/07/07 Woke early on the 1st and with clear heads and decided that we'd be really original and spend the day on the beach. Also, to show our adventurous and experimental personalities we decided to yet again go for the '53 Baht Special' (about 80 pence) for breakfast, Green Tea and Croissants (breakfast pastries has been a really tiresome part of our basic back-packing existence!!). The day passed uneventually, we met another couple of backpackers, Alex and Vicki, two rather posh Cambridge Undergraduates, and arranged to meet them later in the evening for a few beers (you could tell that our intellectual mutterings about bat and ball, lady boys and our growing obsession with budgetting/cost-cutting, impressed them). We returned from the beach and to our delight our landlord, Sayun (pictures to follow shortly, as technophobes these
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