Sunday, 7 April 2013

Day 5


Day 5

 

Ok so today we checked out of the hotel  in Rawai at midday and got the taxi up the coast to Patong….first impressions.....absolute sh*thole its soooo chaotic. Mopeds everywhere, no clear road signs…mopeds literally crashing into you!!!! Anyway we are staying in a small budget guest house which is a long way from out hotel in Rawai but we arrived and its really nice. Everything you need and only 10 quid a night with breakfast. The bed is a little hard for my liking but I slept well last night! Once we was checked in we walked over the road and handed in a bagful of laundry to be cleaned….2 quid including ironing J perfect. We then had a walk down to the beach and looking for a big shopping centre in the centre of Phuket which I thought would be hard to miss it turned out I was wrong!!!! We turned left and walked and  walked…the roads are full of pot holes, dusty and just chaos. We came to the end and so turned down towards the beach. We met a guy who was selling tours and offered us an amazing price for 2 we wanted but didn’t have the cash at the time. Anyway we carried on walking and FINALLY we arrived at the shopping centre! Wasn’t as big as I expected but it had some nice shops and loads to buy for souvenirs. After here we had lunch and I had a spag bol…..now I have NEVER EVER ate spag bol so hot!! Hundreds of chilli seeds in there..omg my mouth was on fire but was actually really nice! We had then arranged to meet someone I had spoken to online who was in Phuket at hard rock café at 5. We checked on Mai’s Iphone maps for hard rock café…20 min walk up to the north side of patong beach so off we went….arrived at the said point nothing!!!! So we asked again and it was nowhere near where the Iphone maps said it was….so we had to walk 30 mins back the way we came to finally get there..(never seen prices like it, 12 quid for a blue devil. Double the price of at home)Anyway I had a pint and then we walked along and had tea before heading back to the hotel and this is when the fun began! We tried to remember the way we came and tried taking a short cut up a street which brought us out near the shopping centre. We turned left and walked for what seemed like miles…totally lost. I was getting pretty peed off and eventually we got one of the tuk tuks back to the hotel and he even took us to the wrong one at first! It turned out at the shopping centre we should go right. Anyway finally got home and was that tired we couldn’t be bothered going back out so just chilled in the room and got an early night!!

Hopefully going out tomorrow to book trips to Phi Phi and James Bond island )J

 

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