One of the most anticipated tour weekends was upon us with expectations of grandeur beyond your average weekend. We all began our travel, some considerably longer than others. Be it by plane, train, bus or van we arrived on Koh Samet. Wait wait......some of us decided to have a night out in Bangkok before the early morning of travel to the Island. With no hostel booked we soon got on it along Koh San road. As I walked down, I realised just how crazy it was and how necessary it is to drink while on the road or you'd go mental!
Just like the very first night of tour I got a tower of beer with Paul. We hit it hard.......scenes missing and it ended up with everyone getting kicked out of the hostel to the screams of an angry Thai women! Straight to the bus station, still drunk, get the bus with Danny and whenever you tend to do anything with Danny you can expect it to be entertaining!
Checked into Chillis, had some food and met a few of the others and began what would be a common trend for the week.......DRINKING! I've been rambling on with this one so lets bullet:
•Banner - Jack & Danny had got a large banner made saying lads on tour with pictures of those in Koh Samet. It looked great and is now in a bar hopefully up on the wall and not in the bin!
•Breakfast - A spontaneous committee meeting with Danny that ended up taking two hours and involving a breakfast which included 3-4 beers before 11am!
•Harsh - Nik being cruelly left to sleep on the beach by a co-tour member and waking up heavily covered in bites.
•Regrettable Underwear - unfortunately I didn't have time to fully change before the night kicked off, with the sea there and the urge for some group swimming hard to resist we went in....sadly not anticipating the possibility of swimming I had a very poor choice of ball stranglers on! To quote "it looked like a child thong", "it was like watching two of the most unsexiest people emerge from the sea". They have been destroyed.
•Breakfast - Nik, Danny and myself went on a ramble and once again had beers with breakfast. Doing this sets the tone for a day because if you stop you will crash!
•A good thing - tour members stopping a sexual assault by decking the aggressor.
•KSS - the majority of tour getting violently sick and having diarrhea, this is actually crazy, I got sick about 13 times in between 4-9 on Tuesday morning, Max was so bad he had to go to a hospital, three others also went to hospital, I received a call from one tour member distraught from being on the toilet pot for most of the day and I have reports that many others who thought they were safe have been inflicted with whats now being dubbed as KSS - Koh Samet Syndrome. It is most likely a bad case of food poisoning that will be over in 12-24 hours once you do the right things.
•Return Trip - I got home at 10pm after leaving the island at about 10.30am on the back of a lot of vomiting and barely any sleep. Others had a much worse experience having to travel through the night and arrive home in the early hours and more or less go straight to school. Some never made it to school, some didn't leave the Island that day!!
•Others - losing two sun creams one of which I bought there and only used once, not getting to jet ski, eating two of the exact same dinners, accidentally drinking sea water and having to vomit it up, note to self don't drink beer in the sea, tour member falling down the steps at the port, remembering more of nights out than normal which was a definite bonus on this trip, and a few short heated conversations which need not happen again.
In short it was another extremely funny weekend with mountains of banter, some good stories, a touch of drama and the realisation that you can push your body to far on tour!!
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