The Beach

Traffic here on Koh Samui seemed a lot more manageable here than other places we'd seen, so we felt comfortable renting a scooter for the day. Only 200Baht (4Eur). It was quite nice to tour the island at your own pace. We passed a mini golf course and decided to drive up the dirt track to it. The place was empty except for the owner, so we headed in for the laugh. Half way through we went to the bar on the course for a not so well deserved break :-). The owner there was a really nice German guy. He had "The Beach" on DVD and he'd never seen it before. I saw it first when it came to the cinema (9 years ago?) but not since - perfect time and place to watch it since it's based around Samui, Phan Ngan and Ang Thong (where I'd only been the day before). It was great watching it with the owner - he'd been here six years and he was able to tell us all the locations and was getting nostalgic about how it had all changed. Interestingly, he was able to confirm that hippy communities do in fact exist on some of the islands, just like in the film ... cool!