I really didn't want to leave

It's my last few hours on Koh Tao. I have a boat to catch at 4pm and then 13 hours of wonderful boat and bus travel. Oh yay. I've had such a great time here. Last night I met up with some girls I met on Koh Phangan and had dinner with them. Then of course there was drinking and dancing and general fun all round. I am going to miss this place!

The plan for the next couple of days. Back to Bangkok for 5am tomorrow and then another bus out to Kanchanaburi where I can do history things and see the bridge over the river Quai. There's a film or something about it. Then back to Bangkok for Friday night for some last minute shopping and maybe spa sessions. Then home on Saturday. Can't believe it's been 6 weeks already!
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I was really good at connect 4

Yesterday evening I watched some live music at the bar in town and then ended up going out with three girls from where I'm staying and dancing on the beach until the bar shut. I saw a load of the divers I had met last time and we ended up in a very seedy bar playing connect 4 with girls who were definitely prostitutes. Apparently I rock at connect 4.

So last night was a late one and today I have not been productive. The weather is not very good and I'm reluctant to go for a massage because I somehow stubbed my toe on something last night and now it is very bruised and hurts quite a lot. I have brought a new book and plan to watch a movie and have a quiet night. It might happen...
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I came back to Koh Tao

I actually love it here. My friend Chad who works in a couple of bars here thinks I should stay and work here. Sorely tempted!

I was up at 6.30 this morning to get a boat out of Koh Phangan. I arrived back at Koh Tao and have got my own bungalow where Ali and I stayed last time. The mangey dog Thomas was very happy to see me :)

So the plan for the next few days is to chill out on the beach and catch a few last days of sun before heading back to Bangkok. I'm thinking I might risk a scooter and take a trip round the island. Perhaps. Even though everyone uses them I'm not sure I want to risk it!

Saturday is looking frighteningly close.

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There were a lot of buckets...

Last night. Umm. I don't think my brain is functioning quite enough yet. There were lots of buckets involved. As well as dancing, and fire limbo. It was a little bit of a crazy night. There were so many people there. So many people! Everyone was covered in paint, myself included. I keep finding paint on me now, despite showering.

It was a great night as I kept bumping into people I knew. I spent most of the night with the guys from Stourport that I met the other night. But also saw loads of people from Koh Tao, and also other friends I had made here. It was amazing that I actually saw them as there was so many people there I was sure I would never see anyone I knew.

I stayed out until it was light, the sunrise was not particuarly impressive as it was cloudy, and then crashed. Although if I'd had the energy I would have stayed up dancing. The music continued until the afternoon!

The weather today has been awful, the sky is dark and it's very windy. I've just chilled out at my bungalow and read my book. I haven't really slept that much due to the red bull! I've just booked a boat to go back to Koh Tao tomorrow morning so I'm going to get some food and then actually have an early night, I don't think I can face anymore Sangsom for at least 24 hours.
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I was a little over excited about my UV paint

Bucket of Joy = Bucket + Ice + Sangsom + M150 + Lemonade
Brilliant
They are setting up 'sleep areas' on the beach
I am very excited

Also, quiet night last night? No
I actually made it back to my bungalow and then the two Israeli guys next door invited me to go drinking. Cue vodka, redbull and dancing on the beach until 4am again.

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I thought I had somehow traveled back to Europe to Magaluf/Faliraki/Kavos/etc

Watching the kickboxing last night was pretty awesome. There were 8 fights and a kind of exhibition fight at the beginning between two 6 year olds who were pretty terrifying. Violent little things. One of the best fights was won by a tiny man. He can't have been more than 5ft 2 or something. But he totally kicked ass. There was also a fight with an English guy who looked strangely like Eminem. He was actually very good and knocked out his opponent in the first round.

After the fight, the tickets got us free entry and a free drink at a pool party at the hotel next door. I was invited along by the three girls I had been sitting next to and it would have just been plain rude if I had sad no. So another night of partying ensued. The pool party was mildly horrendous to be perfectly honest. The music wasn't bad, but it was full of completely slaughtered English. Guys dancing around with no tops on and girls throwing themselves at them in an embarrassing fashion. It reminded me very strongly the holiday rep shows you see on tv. After a few hours dancing and telling a very creepy guy exactly what I thought of him trying to to repeatedly grope me, not going to lie, it wasn't polite, the girls headed back to their hotel and I headed back to the beach to continue the party with some other people we had met.

Had Rin beach appears to get busier every night up to the full moon, there were definitely more people out last night than the night before, even at gone 3 o'clock. At the beach there was dancing and fire skipping and fire limbo. Well. I danced, but I have no desire to burn myself on a burning rope.

Today I am going to actually chill out and almost definitely not go out. Tomorrow is the full moon and I'm pretty excited!!
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I had an actual rave on the beach rather than an quiet night in...

So last night my quiet night didn't work out. I didn't drink anything but I bumped into a couple of girls I'd met on Koh Tao and went to meet them at a bar on the beach. I actually ended up watching a fire show and then dancing on the podium with a load of people from Stourport. Turns out it's quite a small world. The beach at night here is crazy. There are several bars and loads of stalls selling buckets of alcohol as well as a couple of sounds systems. One of the bars has one of the biggest sound systems I have ever seen. Probably only rivaled by ones I have seen at festivals and the Prodigy gigs I've been to. Last night it was pumping out the loudest techno/trance I have ever heard and I spent quite a while raving with a Israeli girl I had met. I'm not really sure who is in Israel at the moment because most of the population seems to be at Had Rin. (wide generalisation I know)

This morning I had a nice lie in. It was nice to not still be completely wired from the Thai red bull when I woke up! I brought some books from a cheap second hand book store and went to the beach. I have been totally spoilt by the calmness of Koh Tao and it felt weird to be on a beach surrounded by people. Lunch was at a little restaurant on the main street which is currently playing the entire back catalogue of Friends. I think I might head back to the beach this afternoon and chill out for a bit, then this evening there is a kick boxing match on which I think I'm going to go to.
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