Flying wheels, 6,5ft tall German Men and return to Bangkok!

Oh My god.....set off from Koh Pha Ngan first in a van, then on a bus, then on a boat and finally on the "VIP" bus!!!!The journey which should have take 14 hours ended up taking 24....The first event, I left Nicola in Hat Rin as she is going to travel tomorrow instead, I had a fainting incident of the super cramped boat which I believe was the effects of sitting in the 90 degree sun on the top deck of the boat...no one helped me at all apart from a lovely Australian guy who bought me some warm, orange flavoured milk as there was no water on board!!!!All was well, met a really nice Malaysian girl who helped me through the crowds with my backpack and told me stories of her passion for whitewater rafting!!!Got stuck at Surrathani for about 2 hours before being told the buses were all full so I got taken to another random place followed with another 2 hour long wait!!!Eventually got on the bus where I bagged a double seat to myself and settles down to watch some badly dubbed Kung-Fu movie!!!We made a brief stop off at a service station before hopping back on board....was nice and cosy when this very tall German guy came and took the seat next to me!!!I mean come on, where had he been sitting the previous 5 hours?!?!There was no need, he was proper sprawled out and I found myself squashed like a sardine in the corner...the final straw came when her caressed my knee and drooled on my shoulder so had to lay down the law...the rest of the journey was spent with him purposely hogging the space out of spite!!!!In the middle of some really baron road in the pitch dark the bus made a really lous, scary bang and tilted to one side with gave us all a fright, I thought a bomb had gone off. Turns out the wheel had come off the bus!!!we spent several hours in a garage before getting back on the road!!!Finally arrived in Bangkok after a massive 24 hour long journey! Tired and famished I went to seek solice in the good old Siam Oriental Inn...grabbed one of the special breakfasts which I had missed then caught up on a few hours sleep before going for a look around the Banglamphu street stalls and a couple of temples!!!!