Oh dear the Thomas' fell off the wagon - despite fierce declarations of sobriety and frugality until we hit Thailand - and when we fall, we fall hard!!
Well on the sobriety front we did pretty good, just a couple of beers, but frugality, not so sure. We took the ferry from Penang to Langkawi - 3.5 hours on a Beachcomber type boat, we had been really looking forward to the promise of clean, clear water and some R & R after our non stop whirlwind, tour north. The main resorts were 24km from the ferry terminal, in the midday heat it took us about 2 hours - in fact in the cool of the afternoon it would still take us about 2hours - but that's by the by! Anyway, when we finally got to the land of sparkling resorts and sundress shops, sorry fully booked, sorry fully booked, sorry fully booked - eek, the pressure was getting on, we decided to go to the far end of the beach and work our way back, then we would know there was nothing better further on. Thankfully we entered the tranquil, fragrant setting known as Frangipani Langkawi resort - translates to 'black money hole'. Anyway it was about 10 times our budget so of course we booked in for as long as we could, 3 days only on account of Chinese New Year. But it was bliss!! We lived in our perfect little tourist bubble with the aircon flat out and clean sheets everyday!! Bliss. Other blissfulnesses was our balcony overlooking the pool and ocean beyond - the breakfast buffet - nirvana for a Thomas. Possibly the best bliss was the duty-free G&T sundowners!!
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