Koh Phangan

We had a decent journey this time and arrived in Koh Phangan at about 5pm. We'd booked somewhere to stay which turned out to be little bungalows on stilts in a forest. It was away from the centre and the closest shops and restaurants was a 20 minute walk away.
On the first night we settled into the bungalow and then left to find a bite to eat. The road didn't really have any sort of landmarks to look out for to find our way back and to be honest Colin and I weren't concentrating on where we were going either. So it's no surprise that on the way back, by which time it was dark (pitch black, you couldn't see a hand right in front of your face) we got a little lost, but after a 10 minute detour we found our place.
The next day we walked along the beach and then back to the bungalow to relax in the hammock on our balcony. There was a pet monkey at the reception at the place we were staying that kept screeching for attention, so it wasn't quite as peaceful as it could have been, but still nice. That night we got harassed by more stray dogs, but luckily they didn't bite us, just scared us. I hate these dogs!
On our last day in Koh Phangan we hired a moped so that we could get to some of the other beaches on the island. We paid for the bike and then had to give in Colin's passport as a deposit. This might sound ludicrous, but it's the norm in Asia (they know you won't run off with their bike as you need to come back for your passport). You'd think we should be used to handing our passports over to random strangers, but we're not and still feel nervous every time we have to do this. Anyway, we took the bike and drove around the island, went to nice beaches and sat eating lunch until it started raining too hard for us to ignore it and then headed back to our room.
The rain didn't stop till later and we weren't going to use the bike again, so decided to return it and get Colin's passport back as we were leaving early the next morning. We were told to wait 20 minutes for the motorbike guy to come... an hour later and he still wasn't there. Finally after another 10 minutes of sitting around watching the sun go down and the darkness come, the guy got there. The next few minutes are a bit of a blur, because the guy was mumbling and all I caught from what he was saying was that he'd lost the passport. Colin was keeping his cool, I had already gone bananas and thrown the man's helmet on the floor. He tried to give us a long story which we didn't want to hear (especially as he'd already made us late for dinner). Colin told him he didn't want to hear any more stories, just find the passport and bring it back. So off we went for dinner, both feeling really nervous and not wanting to think about what we'd have to do to sort this out. Half way through our pad Thai he spotted us as he drove past and showed us the passport, safe and sound in his hands. He had the cheek to tell me that I didn't need to get upset and worried because he is secure... have you ever!!
That night the rain really came down, we both woke up when we first heard thunder and there was a point where the thunder and the lightening came at the same time. The entire bungalow and valley lit up and we were both a little bit scared, but eventually it passed and we went back to sleep.
It's a shame the weather here wasn't great, but we got a few hours of beach time in and really good food at a little restaurant. This morning we left and headed to Koh Tao.