We arrived safe and sound to the hell whole alternatively called Patong beach in Phuket. It has got even more build up since we were last here for a night two years ago. Dan had the privilege of carrying both large rucksacks to keep the extra weight of my toes which are now a spectacular shade of black, but slightly less swollen.
On then way to get some lunch we tried negotiating a price for a tuk tuk to take is into the main area, they were asking a ridiculous price, this is when things started to go horribly wrong. They started being rude in Thai about us at which point a bit of an argument arose, another tuk tuk driver saw us in trouble ( 5 of them 2 of us), so as we started to walk to the other car and old Thai man raised his hand to slap me but missed, so he got out of his car to continue the confrontation - I would not have minded well sort of if I had said anything but I was on the other side of the road for most of the conversation. He raised his hand again at which point I turned round and said you never raise a hand at a woman - and promptly jumped into the tuk tuk leaving them gesticulating at us as we sped away. The tuk tuk driver stopped a policeman who we explained the trouble to.
On leaving the hotel this morning they we still there and called after us, a good job we are leaving today.
Despite this we actually had a lovely evening.
Dan is in the process of booking us tickets for here to Bangkok for when return from our diving trip in 4 days time.
Similans here we come.