Archive for November, 2008

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West Coast Journey – Ranong to Bangkok!

We booked our tickets off the island through a local agent, realising they would be a little more expensive but we wanted to ensure that we had our tickets in advance – not wanting to get stranded any where late at night with Tehya.
The boat off the island is a flat rate of 150 Baht [...]

28Nov2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued
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Koh Phayam – West Coast Thailand

I first heard about Koh Phayam from Bee – my dads (Hilary) sister. Bee visited Koh Phayam several Christmases ago with my cousin Ned. The story went:-  that Koh Phayam was one of the last tourist discoveries and was therefore much like some of the other now popular islands were 15 or 20 years ago. [...]

26Nov2008 | Hanna | 2 comments | Continued
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Koh Phayam – Ranong Thailand – no internet or computer

We are currently in Koh Phayam, Ranong in Thailand near southern Burma. We have no laptop as it is in Bangkok under repair. Very limited internet i.e we need to take a motor bike taxi a few miles to get access to expensive satellite internet. We should be back in communication by the 16th December [...]

25Nov2008 | onefix | 2 comments | Continued
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Ranong – The Journey

After we said goodbye to Becca the previous evening we went out for a late supper with Tehya – we were all feeling pretty despondent. After a quick meal we went back to the room to encourage Tehya into bed…. it always takes a while to settle her now (the evening before we travel). She [...]

19Nov2008 | Hanna | 1 comment | Continued
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Patong Beach – Phuket – Thailand

We had originally planned on getting to Phuket on the 14th of November. Oonagh’s flight to Bangkok was on the 16th and Becca’s was on the 18th. That would have given us two nights to sample Patongs notorious night life before the girls started to make their departures from Thailand to Australia.
As it was we [...]

18Nov2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued
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Phi Phi town – Thailand!

Gavin and Becca got a long tail boat to the main part of Phi Phi town and did another quick search for accommodation. We had decided to split up – Oonagh and I stayed to complete packing and look after Tehya as the constant search for accommodation was starting to make Tehya unhappy and clingy. [...]

12Nov2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued
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Long Beach – Koh Phi Phi

We walked to the bungalows that Gavin had found on Long Beach and were told they had the cheaper rooms available a few rows back from the beach. I can’t remember the name of the resort but it is towards the left hand end of the beach (not right at the end!!) if you have [...]

8Nov2008 | onefix | 0 comments | Continued
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Koh Phi Phi Don – Thailand

How angry do you get with yourself when you repeat a mistake that you have made before and should have supposedly learnt your lesson from….? This is an important question and one I asked myself several times that day….! We arrived on Phi Phi at about 10.30 am after an easy journey that was tainted [...]

5Nov2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued
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Bangkok to who knows where – Islands revisited!!!

The five of us spent our second day at the Villa Cha Cha trying to decide where to go next in Thailand – our initial idea had been to go to an Island off the west coast called Koh Phayam. We had little information about it and most of what we had read said that [...]

4Nov2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued
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Robyn and Taylor – Thank you to our Australian friends!!

Around the same time as losing our laptop to the Mac service repair -  we logged into our blog account to see that our good friends Robyn and Taylor had very kindly donated 50 Aussie dollars!! We were really surprised and touched by your kindness – thanks guys!!
For those of you that have not read [...]

1Nov2008 | Hanna | 0 comments | Continued
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