Saturday, April 24, 2010

Days 166-171 – Thailand

March 20-25, 2010 – Koh Chang, Thailand

For the next 6 days we are going to settle into a beach existence. But before we do so we need to take care of one very important matter…

We must buy a hammock.

After all, no self-respecting beach bum can exist without one.

This being achieved, everything else is just details. Here’s a breakdown of our daily routine while on Koh Chang:

- Wake up when we wake up and then chill out before breakfast.

- At 10:00am our breakfast place of choice, the Stone Free bar, opens. It’s time for some fruit, yogurt & muesli.

- After breakfast we return to our hut and prepare for the beach.

- We walk to the beach and spend the next few hours swimming, reading, sitting, sitting, reading, swimming, reading, swimming, sitting and so on and so forth.


- We head home from the beach between 3:00pm-4:00pm.

- While preparing for cocktail hour, we rotate turns lounging in the hammock.


- Cocktail hour starts around 4:30pm over a friendly game of Skip-Bo… on the menu is Gin & Tonics, Scotch and chips, and occasionally there’s also Oreos.

- Dinner happens between 5:30pm-7:00pm, depending on how hungry we are and if we’re meeting friends.


- After dinner we stroll around the town, which isn’t very big, so we end up doing it twice.

- We grab a drink and quickly check the Internet.

- We head back to our hut to read, watch TV or play Skip-Bo.

- Around 10:30pm we fall asleep to the distant sound of bad cover bands until we’re woken up to drunken idiots between 3:00-4:00am.

- It’s back to sleep and then begin the routine again.

It’s a rough life, but somebody’s gotta do it.

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