Thailand - Ao nang

Our first stop in Thailand was Ao Nang on the peninsular west coast, and we received an exceptionally warm welcome from Claire & Scott who had booked us a fantastic room in town and pulled out all the stops for us. Scott treated us to some seafood laughably called 'prawns' but each one was the size of a large banana and had enough meat on it to feed a family. We managed to drink several cocktails and got our first taste of the Thai beaches with great company. The beach was a little on the 'busy' side though as throughout the day long-tail boats chugged in and out taking holiday makers to other islands. We also managed to catch an old 'A-Team' episode on Thai television, it was the one featuring Boy-George, cool huh?
The first night we ended up down a strip of bars that I've now christened 'Thai-Croydon', here we drank far too much and had ourselves a highly amusing night watching the Thai ladies, (in very short skirts), dancing provocatively in front of the western men. Aah the cultured life is sometimes so heady and overpowering.
Unfortunately the weather followed us from Malaysia and we were often peed upon resulting in applying sun-screen, five minutes on the beach, swearing, dashing to shelter and repeat. C&S recommended we go to Ko Lanta where they had had a wonderfully relaxing beach holiday with no rain... so Ko Lanta here we come...