Chad and Sharon Moore

I had a couple of recommended places to stay, so we tried them first - both were closed for the night... hmmmm.  If in doubt, have a beer:-)  We followed the sound of laughter, a sure sign of alcohol consumption!  In the dead of the night, Malones Irish Bar came into sight.  Thank god the Irish like a drink - sorry Shakira, Shakira and Mick:-)  Our luck was in, the restaurant next door had a hut available. Sweeeeeet.  Even though they were closed within an hour, food, beer and accommodation was all sorted.  This travelling malarky is easy :-)

The hut was nice and quaint but it was Sharon's birthday so we moved to a place with air con, tv and a fridge and explored Khao Lak.

Khao Lak was one of the areas badly damaged during the Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami resulting in 100 of the…

Today was always going to be a difficult day.  We were planning our longest journey yet - PKK to Chomphon to Ranong to Khao Lak.  I had made this decision so that we would be in a nice beachy location for Sharon's birthday - it was a risky move as it relied on various methods of transportation working together!  We were up early in PPK, the hard bed made that part easy :-)  We grabbed a little snack from the trusty 7 - 11 and caught the 8am local bus to Chomphon, once again the only farangs in sight.  This journey took 4.5 hours, enduring the driver's choice of very loud thai rock music videos (I didn't know it existed either).  So, we get to Chumphon where I found out, with great difficulty, (my thai is still next to nothing) that the next bus to Ranong wasn't for 3 hours...…