Up at 8am, checked out, got taxi to KL sentral just in time for 10am skybus to airport. Quick checkin and short flight to Phuket, no problem with Thai customs, 30 day visa on arrival. Taxi from airport drops us off in the middle of nowhere where we have to wait for the passing bus! The heavens open and we huddle under the bus shelter while a local guy stops riding his motorbike and shelters with us while having a conversation with myself in Thai ! I nod politely. Bus arrives and we speed through the hilly landscape to Sarathani where we are dumped by the roadside and a tout tries to rip us off with ferry tickets. We ignore him and buy the tickets from the ferry then wait for many hours drinking beer and
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