Bangkok to Koh Samet

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We arrived in Thailand safely!

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5th Feb:

We arrived at about 8.00pm into Bangkok airport and as soon as we left the airport terminal we really realised how hot and humid Bangkok was, and the climate we would have to get use to for the next 3 months! We caught a cab to our hostel (which we later discovered was overpriced) passed pristine roads and billboards setting an almost facade for the Bangkok we were still to meet. When we arrived at our hostel we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the accommodation. The place was clean and seemed quite nice. We went for our first walk in Bangkok to get something to eat in this foreign city that was evidently no stranger to westerners. We finally settled on Fish Ball soup from a street vendor as our first meal, wondering if food poisoning would follow (It did not), we actually quite enjoyed it. We then bought a few beers, Chang being the beer of choice in Thailand, and headed back to the hostel. It was there that we met three French Canadian girls who had done a bit of traveling around India and Nepal, and were just arriving in Bangkok themselves. We worked out that we would travel around Bangkok with them the next day and then end up at Khao Sarn road (the tourist street). We then enjoyed a very humid night.

6th Feb:

We woke in the morning and left the hostel with the three girls heading for the river to catch the ferry to Old Bangkok. We slowly made our way to Khao Sarn road where we enjoyed a beer dispensing devise I've never seen, called a Tower. We had a pretty good night, discussing the possibility of leaving Bangkok, having no real idea where else we could go.

7th Feb:

Casey asked the question "Are we still leaving today" and I agreed. We would go south towards the beach. We found an abandoned old Lonely Planet book and Casey picked an island, Koh Samet. We then took the skytrain, a minivan and then a ferry to the island (It wasn't as easy as it seems). We walked around Koh Samet until we found accommodation, just paying for a room with a fan because you had to pay more for airconditioning. We then enjoyed a beer and dinner on the beach before falling asleep early.
8th Feb:
Casey's birthday! Casey went to the police gym, at the invitation of a policeman. We then enjoyed swimming before we decided to hire scooters to travel to the other side of the island. We traveled on what we later discovered to be a walking track, which was worse then many dirt roads I've seen back home, always hard for scooters. We decided to turn back and enjoyed a nice relaxation session on the beach, which we are currently paying for with extreme sunburn, which is giving us both grieve right now. We are going out to celebrate Casey's birthday tonight, and hopefully meet some people we've been seeing around.

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