A costly lesson

The ferries in Thailand followed a schedule, and we had originally planned to catch the 3 PM ferry—if not for the incident. Since we had already missed it, our only remaining option for the day was the 5 PM speedboat.

With enough time on our hands, we needed to complete a few important tasks first. Our first stop was the currency exchange shop, where we converted the Euros, amounting to around 200, into Thai Baht. After that, we returned to the police station and filed an FIR for the wallet theft. I knew it wouldn’t really help, but I still wanted to document the incident.

Next, we picked up our luggage from the same tour shop and left. The speedboat ticket was almost double the price of the ferry, but at this point, expenses didn’t even faze me anymore—we had already been through so much.Read more