We catch our taxi in just an hour or so. We have to say goodbye to our travel for now. Our last couple of days has been in the busy resort of Chaweng in Ko Samui. The place is winding down for the season and with the impact of the trouble in Bangkok and the global recession it is relatively quiet. I was surprised how lovely the beach was too, about 3km long, clean and soft sand and crystal water.

The town itself is based around one long coastal road a vast number of bars, restaurants, massage parlors and hotels stand opposite one another. It is an eclectic mix of people too, from the teenage Euro and Aussie kids, to holidaying families and couples, to the wrong side of middle age single men on the prowl, and lots of locals. It is a bustling place with everyone competing for your baht and for the first time on this trip we have seen bars with "All day Happy Hours". Like some of the big Eurotrash resorts you do occasionally get an horrendous, pungent whiff of the drainage system when walking down the strip but all in all it wasn't quite as bad as we thought. Seemed like a fun place to be if you wanted to party and it is clearly a popular place.

Everywhere seems to be showing re-runs of the Liverpool v Arsenal game from mid week, a 4 - 4 extravaganza that I stayed up until 2am to watch in our hostel bar in Phangan with Kareem the Thai barman, a cool guy who was a professional Thai boxer though sadly he a United fan. What a game though. As an obsessed Gooner I was in two minds about the game, wanting Liverpool to keep challenging the 'scum' for the title whilst wanting to win the game. I guess the result was the best I could have hoped for, even found myself wanting Liverpool to equalise in the dying minutes and they did. Have never ever wanted that to happen before, but these are the feelings that wanting Manchester United to fail puts into opposition fans.

In Chaweng we found a delightful and well run small guesthouse called Pretzys, run by a Thai lady and her American fella. They are really welcoming, will help you with anything and everything, and very chatty. It is just of the main drag at the far end from most of the bars, so it is quiet. But the best thing is that it has air conditioning. We have spent the best part of two weeks sweating ourselves to sleep in the oven like night temperatures. One thing we will be thankful for upon our return back to the UK too.