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The 'breakfast sweets' in question were like small suet puddings wrapped up in banana leaves. One had some unidentified purple fruit inside whilst the other contained sweetcorn. Like most desserts in Thailand they were incredibly sweet but as long as you didn't eat the whole thing, you managed to avoid instant diabetes.

We took the overnight bus to Khuraburi and arrived on the morning of the 21st December. We were supposed to arrive at 7am but the coach driver must have had his foot down as we reached our destination at around 5am. We hung around for an hour or so, then walked to a nearby market for a breakfast of rice soup and bananas. The rice soup was fresh, tasty and laced with a liberal amount of ginger — a good pick-me-up after a rather inconsistent night's sleep on the coach. More about the bananas later...

An hour or so later we were dropped off at a dock where the speedboat we'd booked ourselves onto was due to take us across to the island of Ko Surin. However, we couldn't leave until all the other passengers turned up and it was another couple of hours before they did. In the mean time, the staff of the boat company (Greenview) looked after us, gave us tea, coffee and the aforementioned sweets, and, having discovered she could speak Thai fluently, chatted to J.