Robbed
By Jon. Filed in Travel |
As mentioned, I headed off to Ko Chang – a great beach island 5 hours east of Bangkok – for some tanning time and general R&R by the sea. However, this dream was destroyed with 2 hours of getting there.
I got robbed.
Yes, robbed. Luckily I only lost actual money and nothing else, unlike other people I have spoken to since, who also experienced theft on Ko Chang in recent weeks. What makes my loss really sting is it was by a fellow backpacker. Admittedly I had only just met him, however I have shared rooms so often on so many trips that it did not even occur to me that this sort of thing could happen to me, despite knowing of times it had been done to others.
So thanks to this I no longer felt able to enjoy Ko Chang, I was looking over my shoulder too often to notice the beauty of where I was. Ko Lanta beckoned me from the other side of the country.