12/05/13
The diving that I was meant to be doing today was canceled yesterday evening because the weather forecast was so bad for today and would've made diving very dangerous. The first thing I did this morning was change the time of my bus ticket off the island, it had been booked for tomorrow but I didn't want to hang around if I didn't have to, I changed it to 13.00. Afterwards I got a late breakfast and stayed in the cafe for a couple of hours because I didn't want to brave the torrential rain outside. Once it eased up I went back to my bungalow, finished packing and went and waited for the minibus. A 2.5 hour bus ride later I arrived in Trang, a nondescript town. There are 5 hotels here (I know because I went on a search for them), a small handful of restaurants, one of them western and a couple of coffee shops and no bars to be found. I have a room in a backpackers hostel but I am yet to see another white person. I then tried booking a bus to Satun (the nearest town to the border) so I could renew my visa but this exercise was a total waste of time. The 10 Thais at the bus depot spoke terrible English, my French was is better than their total English and that is saying quite something. I tried everything to explain what I wanted, actions and showing them a map failed and when I mentioned tomorrow it made things so much worse, I had to walk away because I was so worked up. Nothing a piece of cake in a cafe couldn't sort out. I just hope that when I turn up tomorrow I will have more success. I bought tomorrows breakfast and retired to my room very early and read as there was nothing else to do because the even the coffee shops were shut by 20.00, I can't wait to move off from this dull town.
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