Quick update...we've booked the following tickets and are getting out of Koh Samui asap. Koh Samui, for those who haven't been here is a bit like a cross between a Greek Island and Bangkok - ie very built up, commercial, full of package tourists, but if you stray from the main areas some delightful restaurants etc...that said we're done with beaches for the time being hence moving on v quickly. We have booked a ferry tomorrow to take us to the mainland (13.30) then onto the train station in Surat Thani where we jump on an overnight train (this may become a recurring theme in the following weeks and months) to Bangkok - arriving at 8.30ish. Then we kind of mill around in BKK for a few hours (in a moment of weakness earlier I agreed to go to the weekend market - arghhhhhhhh!) until we jump back on another (overnight) train north to Chiang Mai - arriving at about 6.20 on Saturday. As ever Daniel the romantic has made sure that on the most romantic day in the calendar we are on an overnight train. For those of you who remember we spent our wedding anniversary last year on an overnight ferry...is there no end to my romantic talents??

We are also going to be bidding farewell to Vanessa who we've been with for about 10 days. She's off back to BKK and then onto Vietnam. I am sure we will meet up in Aus.

By the way I did indeed 'lose' at golf, no change there then. I was of course handicapped by my ear and lack of balance, so with, say, a two shot handicap I won by a shot...