Our week on Koh Phangan has definitely been our laziest of the holiday. We stayed on a lovely beach with just a few massages and restaurants – there was nothing else we needed. We only had a scooter for one day but visited some lovely bays with some great (unexpected) snorkelling.

On Koh Samui, we were a bit more active- it would have been hard to get much lazier! We’ve been here twice before so have done quite a bit but we’d never seen a cabaret here so we decided to stay in Chaweng so we could see one. The town was a shadow of its former self and unfortunately the beach quite littered with rubbish so we only stayed here 2 nights. The show was quite entertaining and had only reopened a few weeks before. Luckily, we were on hand for Kate’s “Thai tattoo” (scooter accident and injuries) and we were very grateful just to be able to apply some antiseptic to her grazes other than have anything more serious happen. We did see a really bad accident on our journey back which brought home quite how lucky she/we had been.

We moved several times in Samui and were lucky with all our hotels. The upgrade to our own beach villa was a particular favourite. We saw quite a bit of live music here too which we really enjoyed. I finally got Callum to visit some waterfalls which we’re pretty impressive as well as a little secret Buddha garden. We had quite a bit of rain here and so got very wet on a few occasions both on and off the bike. Our last temples were impressive too with 2 lots of large Buddhas.

So that was Thailand though there are a still places we didn’t get to so we will be back but for now we’ve had a fab time with lots of laughs, great food, massages and views.