We didn't intend on staying long on Koh Samui, but 5 days soon turned in to 2 weeks. We found this little beach bungalow. It's very basic but has everything we need, including a cafe next door with a good bananagrams table and they serve tea in a pot...just the way it should be.
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| Can you spot Tim? |
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| View from our bungalow |
We seemed to have aged by about 50 years, and spend a lot of time sitting on our porch watching the world go by. We have two canine friends for company, Molly and Maisy. Tim has grown very fond of Maisy and has even been caught sharing his food with her (something he reluctantly does with me). Perhaps they have bonded over their matching haircuts?
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| Tim, the dog whisperer |
We spent a day snorkelling at a nearby island, Koh Tan. The snorkelling itself was amazing, and we saw a whole range of fish, including angel fish, sargeant majors, sting rays, and many others which I don't know the names of. For someone who has a bit of an (irrational) fish phobia, I was quite proud of myself for coming eye-to-eye with so many. Other parts of the day were, well, pretty interesting. The trip we'd wanted to go on was fully booked, but the tour manager, keen to not miss out on some money, arranged for us to go with him and a potential investor from Singapore. He would take us with him on the proviso that we pretend we're journalists who needed to go out on that day (as he couldn't be seen to be taking riff-raff out on his private trip with the investor). Turns out this man (the manager) is a multi-millionaire who rubs shoulders with Richard Branson, and was keen to fill us in on his multi-national enterprises and his 7 wives. He also mentioned his nickname as the "butcher of Kashmir", as he holds the world record for the greatest number of amputations (253!) in 72 hours, which he achieved when the landslides occurred in northern India and he was an orthopaedic surgeon in the Australian army. Quite an impressive life story (starting with him robbing a bank in Tasmania at 14!)
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| Beautiful Koh Tan |
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