Today we said goodbye to the bright lights of Bangkok and hello to the lush green southern town of Krabi.

We are a family of three again, with our daughter Amelia having joined us for two weeks now that’s she’s on her University summer break.

The flight down to Krabi is only 1hr 15mins and before we knew it, our flight was descending to the greenery of the South Thailand and our return to a more rural beach life for a few days.

We had arranged a transfer with our hotel and were greeted by a friendly coach driver who after 30mins stopped at Ban Ao Nam Mao, where we jumped into a golf cart for the last few hundred metres before arriving at our long tail boat.

The view from the harbour where the long tail boat was moored was stunning and more spectacular than we could have imagined. From there we had a 10min boat trip to Railay Beach our home for the next 3 nights.

The view from the hotel beach is one of the best we’ve seen since leaving Australia and we must say thanks to our friends Jamie & Tracy in Manly who recommended staying here. It’s so idyllic and just the tonic for a few days of relaxing on a beach as well as exploring the Phi Phi Islands by boat.

After checking into our hotel and very quickly unpacking we spent a few hours by the hotel pool and down by the main beach.

We’d been told that we should try and catch the sunset from the beach and we weren’t disappointed. Not sure our photos do justice to how stunning the sky looked as the colours changed with the sun slowing disappearing from view.

Having taken in the beauty of the sunset, the next goal was to go and satisfy our hunger pains. Railay Beach is relatively modest in size comprising one Main Street of less than 0.5 mile with bars and restaurants that run from one coastline to the opposite coast.

We are here in the low season so a lot of the places were quiet, which suited us as it made finding a table much easier. We opted for Mangrove restaurant and bar and the girls opted for Pad Thai, whilst Andy went for a Thai chicken curry.

In between we had a few games of cards whilst we waited for the food to arrive.

Our waiter turned out to be a card player and magician and before we knew it he had picked up the cards and was showing us all his tricks. It was great fun and helped to make the evening a night to remember.

We got the waiter to show us his tricks and how he managed to confuse with his sleight of hand. All very impressive.

With the Euro’s having started we headed back to our hotel to watch some of the Hungary v Switzerland game, although the real interest lies in Englands first match on Sunday night (Monday morning here) when they play Serbia.