It was a blessing in disguise not booking any accomadation before we arrived in samui. The place we had pencilled in as an option was right above a disco, but the place we ended up staying in has air con, a tv, shower with pressure and the sheets get changed every day! A little upmarket for our standards but worth the splurge at this stage of the trip anyway. Its 600 baht each!
Such was the quality of our beds and air con, we couldnt help but sleep in... so by about 11 we finally got up and sought breakfast. Was the worst brekky of the trip as the eggs were untouchable, something was seriously wrong with them (although the shake banana was good).
We decided to check out the beach and were suitably impressed with the views. Its a beautiful long beach which despite being overdeveloped is still a great place to wander around...
After walking all the way up the beach we decided to walk back down the main drag to do some shopping. It turned out that this took all day! We ended up buying sunnies, 25 dvds, 10 tshirts, 5 pants and numerous presents. Should probably have bought more as you dont get anything like this in Sydney!
Matt is slowly getting a little better at bartering, although he still doesnt have the tough streak necessary to get that extra baht off... he doesnt threaten to walk away enough!
All throughout the day the sounds of the street were broken with the recorded announcement of an impending muay thai (thai boxing) event. It was "chump versus chump, starting at 9pm, starting at 9pm, get in early, get in early, chump versus chump" etc.
After finally finishing up shopping we had to quickly get ready to head down to the Liverpool game at the Islander (the original place we had planned on watching it was closed due to a buddhist holiday). Finally found a 24 hour international call centre so was able to get onto Lana, but the 5 second delay was so annoying! Crappy thailand phone system! Walshy has gone on to the islander, but after my phone call i was in such a daze that a walked about 500 m past the pub until i realised!
Liverpool dominated but still lost to a crappy oshea injury time goal... we decided to drink away our sorrows so went to Paradise Murphys to watch the other games and have some more beer. We ended up playing pool for about 3 hours, when drunk things dont get boring as easily i guess. Eventually we decided it would be a good idea to try and get kicked out... so we began playing a hockey soccer variation with the white pool ball. After about 10 mins the manager came over, an irish bloke, and picked up the ball and calmly said it wasnot a soccer ball. He then began talking about his time in sydney and how he used to play for the irish under 16 team... not quite the scene we expected to create but good to have a chat him, was a pretty good bloke.
Was now about 2am and since maccas was accross the road we decided we had to have our thai maccas experience. the big macs, nuggets and soft serves we all similar, but what was great was the pies. They had three variations, the simple pineapple, interesting taro and oustanding (!) corn. Matt couldnt stomach the corn one but i didnt mind it too much , made for an interesting change!
At about 2.30am we began the walk home. The streets were deserted bar one thing - Heaps of lady boys who certainly werent shy. Despite matts previous attraction and affiliatoins with teh lady boys, he seemed to be invisible as they all seemed to home in on me instead this time. "herrow, you interested in me, i have very big breasts, you want blow job". To which i replied "Im not interested", when they kept coming on to me i quickly told them i had a girlfriend, to which she (he?) groped me and said "but i am here now"... made for an interesting walk home... not really one id like to experience agian...but memerable nevertheless.
Finally got to bed at 3am in confort (and thankfully not sharing my bed with any lady boys)
Nick
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