Escaping Bangkok

We left the beautiful island of Koh Samui after 3 weeks of our TEFL course and making some best friends for life. It was time to go back to busy Bangkok and go our separate ways off to our placements. Some people were up off north, some down south, some a 10 hour drive away some only an hour. A few of us, myself included are staying in Bangkok to teach.

Between finishing the course and finding an apartment in Bangkok, I had about a week off, so instead of stressing that I couldn't move in to an apartment and rather than staying in the city, Jess (who was in a similar position) and I decided to escape Bangkok and go to Koh Samet.

Koh Samet is a small tranquil island about 4 hours drive on a bus and a short ferry away from Bangkok to the south! The perfect get away for a few days. We decided the night before to go and booked a random room in a hotel. Well I'm not sure you could call it a hotel, it was more of a block of rooms, the reception area was in a shed next to it. We turned up on the last ferry on Thursday evening and had no idea how to get to the hotel. Luckily it was next to the pier we landed on and Jess recognised it from the photos! The hotel/room was basic but was great for what we needed, a bed, shower and air con!

We spent 2 relaxing days just chilling, sunbathing and reading our books on the beach. It was so nice to just not do anything for the first time since arriving in Thailand. Unfortunately I was not very well one night we were on the island, but then the next night we made up for it and went out for a lovely meal on the beach. Although the meal wasn't that lovely.....we ordered fired noodles with chicken, Jess had hers with sea food and we ended up getting those fat, slimy, jelly like noodles, that neither of us could eat. The chicken and veg it was with was good though! We then went on to some other beach bars and shared a few buckets of cocktails. While sipping are cocktails and having a good girl night we were wondering where the best place to go dancing on the island was or even if there was a place to go dancing when we got chatting to two foreigners also living in Bangkok. They showed us one very cool and busy bar/club at the end of the beach were we danced the night away!!

The next day with a slight hangover we had to make the dreaded trek back to Bangkok to face the reality of starting to teach!

With love from Thailand xxx