Firstly, if you're hoping for an update on what happened on the actual holiday in Koh Samui, that story is a work in progress... Many a tale there though - suffice to say it was an AMAZING holiday with an interesting ending (but no, I did not come back married). That however is not the subject of this post.
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| Lawana Resort, Bo Phut Beach Koh Samui |
So - after years of not actually going on a holiday, I've very successfully forgotten the absolute crap that is the post holiday come-down. The flight home was bad enough, then dealing with jet-lag (which despite only being a few hours time difference manages to really stuff with someone who suffers from insomnia anyway), the return to work (I managed to sleep through and miss my first day), the reality of having to actually cook and clean again, instead of paying a pittance to have someone do it for you, and the weird sort of grief you get from suddenly being separated from your travelling companion, with whom you have spent good, bad, and ugly moments with 24 hours a day.
These are just a few of the things I have discovered on return...
1: Thai Valium helped me actually get some sleep on the plane.
2: Apparently I look suspicious in my ridiculous aeroplane get up (layers of light Thai appropriate clothes so I wouldn't freeze on arrival in Sydney winter) - because I got picked out both to have my passport checked and also my baggage searched.
3: When I left the airport, expecting to freeze to death in Sydney winter, the cold outside just reminded me of the many over-air conditioned places in Koh Samui.
4: The ridiculously expensive cab I caught home smelt like the drains in Koh Samui.
5: Getting home to my chaotic room, which had been left in disarray as I had to change my flight at the last minute and had an hour and a half to pack and leave for the airport was bad enough. Knowing I still had to unpack the mess of my suitcase was even worse.
6. It is VERY easy to avoid the mess and live in a room that looks like a hurricane has hit it for the week post holiday.
7: I look extremely brown compared to everyone else in my office, this is only note-worthy because I am normally the palest person in the world. The fact that I had tanned so much wasn't noticeable at all while away next to the extremely dark Europeans and the local Thai people - . I'm enjoying this moment.
7: My new purple Thai 'Dr Dre' headphones sound awesome. I probably look like a try-hard douche
walking around in them but I don't care cos you hear so much more detail in the music.
8: I'm finding it hard to get used to the traffic back in Australia... it makes so much sense and yet I'm expecting the chaos of Koh Samui roads where there are no rules at all.
9: I miss the dogs being EVERYWHERE - somehow the dogs in Koh Samui mostly have no owners, but most look quite healthy, extremely happy and actually understand how to wait at the side of the road for the INSANE traffic. How that works I have no idea.
10: Only after a week of sleeping obscure hours am I starting to feel SLIGHTLY normal again.
11: I really miss my travel buddy...
So, after a week of struggling through, life is gradually getting back to get back to normality. In theory I should have another holiday to look forward to very soon as I'm booked in to go to Vietnam with 11 in August, but at the moment it's looking like that's being put on hold, all part of the holiday saga that is yet to be revealed.
For now however I'm back at work and can finally empathise with the rest of the holiday-makers out there struggling to deal with post holiday blues.
Happy Monday!
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