Simone on the move

30 November to 2 December

Or two.

I arrived back in Bangkok at 6pm, and Bazz (on a stopover for 20hours) was due to arrive at 6.30pm and my friend/housemate Rafeena from Fremantle at 7pm. What timing!
I’ll be travelling with Raf for the next 6 weeks. First 3 weeks in southern Thailand, then 3 weeks in Laos, where we’ll meet up with our friend Emily and others for christmas and new year.
Bazz took over an hour to get through customs, and after waiting two hours for Raf I gave up and decided to get a taxi to KoaSan Rd and hope to meet her there. Turned out her plane was delayed for 3 hours, but she eventually made it to our hotel at 1am!
Hung out in Bangkok for two days (massages, christmas shopping) and then took a night train, bus and ferry, and are now on Ko Pha-Ngan. It’s lovely, except for the monsoon rain. I knew there’d be a chance of it, and am not bothered much. It should be sunny tomorrow. But after that might be worse, so we might move to the other coast which should have much less rain at the moment.