Day 15 Patong Friday 7th May

Met Bobby last night and went three up into town on the Honda Wave. After sitting on the back of Bobby it has given us greater confidence in the motorbike taxis. Had a great night, was really good to see him. Well it was good until we woke up this morning and couldn’t find the camera. Big bug*er. Bobby left us quite early as he had to leave to go to work this morning so Andy and I decided to jump on a motor bike taxi and hit Bangla Road. Went to the katoi soi (lady boy road) and got chatting to a nice lady boy called Katerina (we think that was his/her name). Eventually Andy had to give in and go for wee, he’d held it in long enough. When he came back he was like a frightened rabbit. He’d gone into the gents and the urinals were busy so he went into a cubicle and left the door open. Next thing he knows there’s a lady boy in there with him and the door was closed. She demanded money from him so Andy told it/he/she to f*ck off. He had to enlist the help of a couple of other tourists to get out of there with everything intact. Luckily he did, Always use the urinals. Poor Andy. Anyway, he managed to de-traumatize himself with a few more Tiger’s and then we headed home – minus our camera. Got up bright and early for breakfast again and then hired a little scooter, no licence required. Andy was gutted he didn’t ask for it as he was dying to hand over his shiny new United Nations driving licence. So off we jumped on the dream machine and headed over the hill to Paradise Beach. Stunning beach but no photos I’m afraid, we stayed there a while then headed into town to see if we could get another camera. Job done but I still have to go to the Plods to report the missing camera so we can get insurance when we return home.
Meeting Geoff tonight so here we go again, will be a quieter night tonight though, just a few beers down near some of the local bars. Not sure about tomorrow yet but sure the scooter won’t be happy about wherever we go as you have to rev the engine to get anywhere, I almost had to throw Angie off today after we left the beach as it’s a really steep hill and we only just managed but had to use our feet at the same time to push the bike along. We may need to upgrade to a bigger engine next time.