The first thing you notice on arrival at the grand, porticoed entrance of the Four Seasons Resort in Thailand’s Koh Samui are the monkeys.
They are everywhere – stone monkey statues proffering welcome garlands, cheeky terracotta monkeys giving you the thumbs up from plant pots, laconic stone apes draped over walls, monkey water-features spouting streams into private villa pools.
So don’t be surprised to find that monkeys are a recurring theme in the third series of hit TV show The