Got to the docks at 8:30 to get the boat for 9:00 only to discover as I should have predicted that the Thai attitude towards timings is employed across the border as well. At 11:00 we finally departed after changing boat which resulted in me losing my good seat and winding up next to a chain smoking old Japanese man. The scenery was beautiful though and I met some lovely people including an Australian couple who were nurses in Australia and a guy who did his Dive Master in Ko Tao at the some place I dived. Once we reached Pakbeng, Max (the diver) and two of the girls we met got rooms together which proved an experience as we lost power at about 10 O'Clock resulting in no fan and no light in a tiny room with a thunderstorm outside and then of course I got ill...less than ideal. The next morning it was all I could do to make it to the dock where I spent the next 7 hours in the back of the boat. It was the only place there was space to lie down but was so hot and noisy. Luckily I was so out of it that I managed to sleep quite a lot anyway!
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