When we lived in Phnom Penh, we had a friend who had spent time on Ko Samui in the 1970s. I mentioned her in an old Couchfish piece on people harking back to the good ole days. I wrote:
“An old friend had spent time on Ko Samui in the early 1970s. She’d travelled there by a freighter carrying coconuts. There was one boat a month and it ran from Samui to …