Day 334: Lazy day, part 1

We decided to just have a lazy day today. Zoe slept in until after 8.30am and then we all walked walked down the road, where we bought some pancakes from some street vendors (there are two of them right net to each other, so we decided to do a taste test this morning, getting lemon and sugar pancakes from both and comparing them. No great surprise, the guy who charged more did a better job). Kate noticed a nice-looking café just across the road, so we went in there and ordered some coffees (they were admirably unconcerned about us bringing food in with us). There was a cat asleep on one of the chairs and it quite happily lay on my lap after I had shifted it. The girls and I then waited there while Kate did the rounds of the travel agents to check out the prices for the ferry to Koh Samui and then we all walked to the beach. 

While the girls swam (and Sarah swung on a rope swing), Kate and I sat at a table just off the beach that had been put there by one of the restaurants and we used their wifi to do some planning for the next few days and weeks. One of the problems with the sort of open-ended trip we're doing (and don't get me wrong, it's a nice problem to have) is that when you arrive in a new country you have too many choices of things to do and places to see – so it actually takes a fair bit of work to narrow down the options and then figure out how to get to the various places you've chosen and where to stay when you get there. So we often need times like this to just get our heads around what we're going to do next. It's also getting slightly more difficult as we watch our war chest empty. We repaid the restaurant whose furniture and wifi we're using by buying lunch from them. Then, in the evening we went back to room then out for pizza at the place down the road and the 7-Eleven and adjacent pancake vendor for dessert.