Europe 2017 – days 25-26

Day 25

We were up at 05:00, and out the door by 05:30 this morning.
At Heathrow by 06:00, two hours ahead of our 08:00 departure.
A fairly uneventful flight to Doha, a 3 hour stopover, and a connecting flight to Phuket in Thailand. We’d decided to spend 4 days in Thailand as it would give us an opportunity to get our body clocks back on Australian time.

Day 26

We touched down around 08:30 in the morning, some 16 hours after leaving Heathrow. The taxi ride from the airport to our resort was about an hour.
The jet lag was hitting us hard. We didn’t WANT to sleep. We wanted to pull through the day (Saturday), crash early, and hopefully wake up tomorrow moderately or maybe even well-adjusted.
But best laid plans and all that….
We crashed for an hour and a half, then forced ourselves back out of bed at lunch time.

The resort has a shuttle bus which, each hour from 08:00-20:00, will ferry you down to Pathong Beach. We headed downtown on the midday bus and found us some lunch. We wandered around, somewhat stunned (despite everything we’ve heard about the Thailand sex trade) at the quantity of “massage” parlours. You’ve seen that episode of the Simpsons where every second store is a Starbucks Coffee? That’s what it felt like here. It was actually quite disheartening.

We caught a mid-afternoon bus back to the resort, and chilled out beside the pool for an hour or two. Then, a shower, another shuttle bus down to Pathong Beach, dinner, more wandering, then back to the resort and bed at a sensible hour.

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