Johnny had let us borrow his bike for the rest of our stay, he said he would drop the blade off in the morning. Wow I thought, a Fireblade would get us tearing all over the island in no time. We met up and the keys for the beast were handed over. We went for breakfast then headed off to look for the bike, “don’t worry Andy you cant miss it, it’s the one covered in Newcastle FC stickers”. I looked for ages then found a scooter with the same reg plate then realized Angie had once told me that you get 50cc Air Blades over here. Things had already turned a little slower and we hadn’t started off yet. We headed off to Laem Singh beach for the day. Angie had forgotten to tell me how many steps you had to climb down as we might have reconsidered this road trip. Once we got down to the bottom though it was definitely worth it. It’s a really small, quiet beach. Probably because nobody can be bothered getting down to it. Had lunch there, Andy did a bit of snorkeling but kept getting battered against the coral reef so gave up in the end. Chilled out for a bit before tackling the climb back to the top, should have taken hiking boots not flip flops. We headed back to the hotel to get ready to go out. Johnny and Da picked us up in their shiny, new car to take us to a floating restaurant further up the Island. We eventually found the place (they hadn’t been before either) and parked up. We had to get a long tail boat from the jetty out to the restaurant. These long-tails are like huge wooden canoe things. They’ve got 4 clylinder turbo charged diesel engines out of a car or truck bolted onto a huge rudder. They go like sh*t off a shovel but you wouldn’t really think it when you look at them. The driver got us safely to the restaurant which was basically a big wooden platform in the middle of the sea. Looking at it and walking on it you’d think it would disappear into the sea but it must have been sturdy enough. Ordered our food which was only seafood (Andy was over the moon). Had soft shell crab curry (almost blew our heads off, even Da struggled), steamed fish, fish head soup and sea snails. Andy struggled through. It was different, that’s for sure. Jumped back into our long tail boat and went back home. Passed up on going to Bangla Road for a cold beer as we were all stuffed and I think Andy wanted to keep a low profile after his man-kini stunt the day before. So another early night for everyone.
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