After kayaking along the deserted coast, snorkelling around the rocks, playing badminton on the lawn, we'd exhausted most of Koh Yao Noi's obvious activities, but if we'd had a few more days we would have cycled to find the secret beaches we'd heard lay down bumpy tracks off the "main road", and caught a ferry to the larger but even less developed neighbouring island of Koh Yao Yai.
Sweden, meanwhile, has less prostitution than neighbouring countries and prices for sex that are the highest in Europe.
Omanis note that their country is less rich than neighbouring Saudi Arabia, but their ruler has done much more with its wealth.
So do these final preliminary results, pending a two-week window for any legal appeal, mean the conservative North African country is less religious than neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, where Islamists did well in recent post-revolutionary elections?
The use institutional care in Georgia had been less widespread than neighbouring countries and the country had already made significant efforts to reduce the number of children in these places from 5,000+ in 2005 down to about 1200 in 2009.
During a past outbreak episode in Germany in the years 2003 2005, in which T. viridana caused almost the complete defoliation of oaks in a selected forest stand in North Rhine-Westphalia, we observed that a few individual oaks were remarkably less defoliated than neighbouring trees.
This was directed both at South African citizens, some of them long-term residents, and the large numbers of migrants who continued to flow in from poorer, less stable neighbouring countries and beyond.
Additionally, clusters of three or more unique markers, which mapped to small regions of a single chromosome on the consensus map (2.5 cM or less between neighbouring SNPs), were defined and identified for each cultivar.
Dress for Qatari women, although still conservative, is much less formal than in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
