said our farewells in the morning , with both of us feling sad to leave and promosing to return to the island...we head off in a speed boat towards pak meng where we get a minibus to trang ...this is about an hour drive and gives emma a taste of thai driving styles which she is not keen on....god knows whate she will think wen we are in colombo! when we arrive at trang we manage to get a "local bus" for the 2 hour journey to krabi..the bus is full of locals obviously :) and i amuse most of them by banging my head on the way into the bus wile trying to carry my backpack on....soem of them were wetting themselves with laughter but i was in to much pain to care !
the journey goes well and we then get a taxi to our hotel in Krabi town.
by this tie we are both craving plain food having eaten so much thai food on the island so we buy lots of packets of crisps and eat our way thru them.
The hotel which is nice enough...is directly opposite the night market in krabi which we take a quick stroll round for some interesting snacks including some bizarre sausage looking thing that tastes nothing like a sausage....before returning to the room to watch the man u liverpool contest.
in the morning watched one last film (cat woman) then set off to do our laundry and have a check about taxi rides to the airport. also we needed to try and sort out staying at the same hostel in singapore that we went to before.
emailed hostel and then did laundry which would be ready by 3pm , had a quick snack of raw chips and burnt burger while emma had one last pad thai....was the worst meal we hve had in thailand and a poor note to leave it on....but hey ho!
when the time came we collected our washing and asked about taxi prices, hotel and one other place wanted 500 bhat..scandalous, had an offer from one chap with a pick up taxi (of which there are thousands all with about 10 people crammed in them) for 150 bhat each) by this time emma and i are both in full haggle mode so we turn him down and get an offer for 100 bhat each leaving now....we then get another offer of the same from someone else and say its too much then finally get him down to 75bhat each....a bargain for the 16k trip :)
on arrival we check in and wait in the departure lounge .... in fact turns out we were waiting in the wrong departure lounge there are two one for domestic and one or international....luckilyh we realise jut as the flight is boarding....you think we would be experts after this number of flights but no! mind you I have never seen an airport operate quite like krabi airport.
on landing at singapore we head off to the info desk to check about hostel....whilke waiting wemeet to young english guys on a gap year and emma sells them our hostel as being good so i go and phone to se if they have a privat room for me and emma and any other room for them...they do so we all share taxi ...cool.
god to se kahlil again...the owner and he is v. pleased to see us ...he is (or his staff are) cooking an amazing bbq of prawns lamb rice etc...but we re not hungry although ema forces one gigantic prawn down! i agree to sort his new pda out in the morning and we have livley debate about smoking policy in singapore!
get poor nights slle worrying about sri lanka....have to say every one we have met has said ..."what you are going there now!" or words to that effect...so have quite a few doubts about actually going to this place....for alot of reasons not just the ongoing civil war!
but looks like we are going so will just be sorting a few essential items out today then off we go to sri lanka this evening!
