At the airport waiting for my flight to Bangkok where I’ll pick up another flight to Chiang Rai. For those of you that don’t know where that is, we’ll it’s in the north of the country and I’ve been here before but I want to go to a couple of temples that I haven’t been to and then I’ll head to Chiang Mai in a few days.

The weather should be a little bit cooler which will be good because I want to do some more hiking. Krabi had been hot and humid even although it’s winter and so it doesn’t take long to be a bucket of sweat, mind you I had the motorbike and so after about ten minutes my clothes were dry except for me arse.

I didn’t sleep well last night due to three loud and drunken Polish guests. They made so much noise and didn’t really care about anyone else. There was an English guy with them that I had spoken to a couple of times. First time I saw him was 7.30am and he was waiting for them to unlock the fridge so that he could have his first beer of the day. He was a tall lanky tragic looking character who was growing a forehead and he had extensions in the little rat tail that hung from the back of his skull, he said he was an English teacher…….aye right!

He told me last night that him and his wife had stayed here for three days and he had only left the hotel once and the rest of the time he has been drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. What a sad way to live your life, mind you if you had seen his wife you would have turned to the drink too.

So I got up at 4am to get ready for the bus and so now I’m at the gate waiting for my fight and the air conditioning is cranked up to, or down to I should say, to cold max. The seasoned travellers have jackets and extra layers but there are so many that are wearing very little and are slowly freezing too death.