This little piggy . . .

English Breakfast
9th Feb
100baht (NZ$4) for 2 eggs, toast, bacon and chips.
I sat on the beach a lot and got a bit pink. Then I cooked my own red curry chicken for lunch with help from the girls in the kitchen (I still have to pay for it) really simple to make and tastes great. Swimming this afternoon and pork noodles for dinner. Watched a movie The Cave, wasn’t too bad.
10th Feb
My last full day on Koh Payam
So of course I had scrambled eggs for breakfast, packed my bags and did some washing. I walked all the way to the end of the beach (Big Tree Bungalows down that end) then back to Baan Suan for a bacon baguette – I swear the food just gets better and better. I had an afternoon swim and more seabass (steamed with spicy, garlic and lime) for dinner and a movie with Jet Li and some X gamers? I had a couple of beers with Rasana and a chat about how her mother bought the land the bungalows are on for 7baht/rai of land (not sure how much land that is?) she started out growing crops then when the tourists started coming Rasana built the bungalows.
11th Feb
Travel day today:
Breakfast (fruit yoghurt and muesli)
Swim
Pack
Bacon baguette lunch
Motorbike taxi (ordered yesterday) to boat
2hours 20 min boat ride (hard wooden seats – wear a hat)
taxi to Ruangrat Road to pass the time at the market where I bought a Thai DVD I had watched some of on the island. Spent some time on the internet and managed to get 1 whole photo onto digitalmax!
Caught the 8pm overnight bus to Bangkok.
The 12, 13 and the morning of the 14th I spent shopping in Bangkok and I visited the Grand Palace and Wat Arun (a must see).
Shopped at MBK (Like an indoor, and therefore air conditioned, market 7 floors high)
Chit Lom and Siam Square (large multi-storied mall with lots of flash shops, and some really really flash shops – I just window shopped here! Bought almost everything at MBK).Then Caught 5:25pm flight to Sydney stayed the night then on to Wellington
arriving home on the
16th February 2007
Kathryn picked me up from the airport, so great to see her, then we drove to the Naki stopping for Subway on the way!

It's a strange feeling, very exciting to be home again to see everyone and see what's changed but it's also almost as if you haven't been away because not much has visibly changed and you almost wish it had because you have changed so much from being away and yet you have to keep reminding yourself that you did in fact travel around the world and have been gone for nearly 10 months because it's alomst too hard to believe. I know that makes almost no sense whatsoever but I'm going to leave it here as a reminder to myself in years to come of that churning feeling in my chest I don't like very much but couldn't live without.