Just a few things to report this morning.

1) Had a great night's sleep - 8 uninterrupted hours (Jen had 10) on a bed straight out of the Sealy catalogue. Marvellous.
2) Got our Visa's extented by 10 days - took all of 10 minutes. The charge was 40B extra than that advertised (about 60p) and the notes went straight into the immigration officer's top drawer - ahem!
3) Having hassle with agents/internet cafe owners - what is it about Patong (we're pretty sure it isn't us this time!!!). Firstly, after we paid and left the internet cafe last night the lady chased us up the street saying we'd underpaid and owed them 120B. After we'd agreed a price and paid. We were getting nowhere refusing so settled with 50B - they weren't happy, but hey we've found a faster cafe nearer to our hotel this morning so yah boo sucks to them!
The other hassle is a little more worrying in that the agents we swapped tickets with last night grabbed us in the street this morning and said we should have paid a 50% (about 18 quid) 'cancellation fee' lst night. 'Her boss' didn't know about the fee when he served us and the money was to be deducted from her wages if we didn't pay. A tough one this as she told me how much she earns a month on our last sojourn...about 5000B - 75 quid. A month. This loss of about 1200B would mean she couldn't feed or clothe her child. We did what every self-respecting person who has heard a million and one sob stories and has been scammed a thousand times in Thailand would do. Refused to pay - threatened to call Thai Airways and get the police involved. We are picking the tickets up at 12pm...in theory. I can see us losing this one. What we find most appalling is that her boss made the mistake but is making her pay the penalty (so she says...) If we sound a little harsh on her you obviously haven't travelled much in Thailand, or maybe we've gotten too cynical (is that possible for me to get MORE cynical???).