Day 88

Friday 28^th January 2011

In one week’s time we’ll be home – boooooooo! Not that we’re not looking forward to seeing you all but we’re having far too much of a good time to want it to end. That said I’m not sure our livers could hack it if we continued like this. They have taken a battering since arriving in South East Asia with no sign of it letting up.

We woke late, about 11.30am. I felt incredibly guilty at wasting my day of sunbathing and eventually dragged myself off the bed and over to the window to check out the weather only to discover it was raining. Well that’s one less worry, I don’t feel guilty, just incredibly hung over. It seems that Mr Frank is feeling equally special this morning judging by the groans coming from his side of the bed.

We peeled ourselves off the pillow and head into town as we have clearly missed the hotel’s breakfast. We’d also like some Wi-Fi so I take the lap top along. The rain has fortunately stopped but the thick grey clouds are still in abundance.

After wandering aimlessly for an hour or so we can’t find anywhere that does the food we want and Wi-Fi. By this time we’ve reached the golden arches so it’s into McDonalds for the well known hangover cure and then to a coffee shop for Wi-Fi.

I was half way through loading up the first blog pics when the Wi-Fi konked out completely and then told me there was no Wi-Fi connections to be had. Grrrrrrr so we downed our coffees and headed back to the hotel. On arrival the laptop was still in denial about the existence of Wi-Fi so either the whole island’s system has gone down or half way through surfing the web our laptop has broken. Either way is not good. I’m currently typing the blog in word in the hope that we’ll get Wi-Fi back at some point and Franky is making the bed as the maids have helpfully left us a pile of clean linen but not actually done anything with it!!!

One thing we have achieved is that Franky has finally purchased a watch. We’ve been looking at various fakes since we arrived in South East Asia and he has settled on a really nice Mont Blanc one in a shop today. This is a relief as it was a watch or a tailor made winter coat which I think would have taken far longer to purchase and would have taken up far more room in the already bulging backpacks!

We also added to our ever expanding pirate DVD collection. We now have Dexter seasons 4 and 5 and The Inbetweeners Season 3. We’re going to be pretty skint when we get home so at least now we’ll have something to keep us entertained until we get Sky switched back on!

After making the bed Franky was keen to dive in it and revisit slumberland despite the fact that we’ve only been up for 3 hours! But as it’s raining there isn’t too much else to do – apart from drink and neither of us are up for that just yet!

When he awoke I’d managed to get us up to date on the blog. He fixed the laptop – seemingly I’d inadvertently managed to switch off the wireless card – a spectacular trick since I didn’t even know we had one! We decided to head back to the Amari for happy hour and utilise their internet.

We were feeling much better so spent a pleasant evening supping red wine on the day bed and posting 5 days of blog by which time we were pretty hungry.

We mooched into town and found a restaurant for tea. Franky had surf n turf with 2 HUGE prawns. I had a lasagne that was terrible.

We weren’t much up for a big night and so headed back to the hotel to get stuck into our DVD collection and I had a strawberry cornetto to make up for the disappointing lasagne.

We opted to watch the treble Oscar winning film ‘The Killing Fields’. It was absolutely diabolical. There was very little dialogue so it was extremely difficult to follow the story even though I knew most of what was going on from my book. The musical score was laughable – everything from opera to jazz and mostly at inappropriate moments, Mike Oldfield should hang his head in shame. I’m not sure what else it was up against for Oscars in the mid 80s but they must be devastated to have been beaten by that pile of crap. It’s a shame because it’s an important story to tell but they did it soooooo badly.

So after a disappointing day and a disappointing film we went to sleep.