Sunday 8th August 2004:
Koh Chang is great - a place to chill and a place to party. I met some nice people on the boat over to the island. We found a nice beach hut on the beach, about five meters from the water. The accommodation is called Cookie ! It is nice to get away from Bangkok as it is just too crowded for me.
The huts are basic but ok; toilets are ok; the bars are cool and we have spent the last two evenings in a bar called the Treehouse.
The beer is good but I have to drink Singha as the Chang beer gives me a bad head.
On Koh Chang we stayed for two days at one nice beach and then moved down the island about four miles to a chill-out beach full of backpackers. We met this guy called Ian from Manchester and stayed at a place called the nature huts, (on nature beach). It was really cheap - we paid about four pounds to rent a hut for two nights.
One night we stopped off at the nature bar on our way to a party at a bar just up the road. It was very lively so we stayed and I started to dance, (I had been drinking for a number of hours). Pretty soon people started to join me and we never made it to the other bar.
%20and%20Ian%20at%20Lonely%20beach%20bar.JPG "Scott, George (asleep) and Ian at Lonely beach bar")
We were drinking party buckets - you get a child-sized bucket and fill it with ice, then a couple of bottles of coke, a 250ml bottle of Samsung whiskey, (or it could have been rum), Thai-style Red-Bull, (non-fizzy, sweeter and treacle-like), then straws to share.
A cool night but I didn't feel so great later.
One day, we hired a motorbike for a few hours. It was mad up the steep hills with George on the back, but a good way of seeing the island.
At one point we got the front wheel of the ground and George had to jump off when the bike started to roll backwards as it ran out of power on a steep hill. We must have looked so funny as we were following a taxi and the people in it took a photo of us.
