21 October
Today we intend to go to Koh Phi Phi. I got up early but had to wait for ages for Mina and the others to be ready. I am growing tired of having guests now. Dook and June spent the morning texting farang men that they’d met the night before, giggling and generally behaving like adolescent teenager girls – rather than women in their late 20s.

All this brought out my conservative puritan side and, after June and Dook had gone, I vented my feelings to Mina.

“This,” I said sternly, “Is why so many farang men look down on Thai ladies. It is the behaviour of girls like June and Dook that make farang men think that Thai girls are easy bar girls etc.”

My lecture over, we drove into town to have breakfast at Good Dream Café.