The Islands! It wasn't a smooth ride - another 14 hours on a bus, this time overnight with less than comfortable seats! On the ferry to Koh Samui there wasn't a word spoke to each other, afraid of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person (Stephen got NO sleep so we were really just afraid of him)! After being completely ripped off by the taxi man we found a cheap hotel, 200 yards away from the beach so we were happy as larry! We had a great few days mucking a...

Hi everyone, I'm writting this from a pub! They offer free internet so im taking full advantage being the cheap experienced backpacker that I am (A week counts as experience). Anyway this is our last night in Chang Mai so thought it was worth a wee write up. We have literally done noting but relax since our heavy treking. A few hours in the pool here an there was the height of it. Its festival fever here in chang mai. Fireworks, parades, traditional thai cistume...

Hello hello Im writing this from Chang Mai! We have had a hectic sort of week! We went to see the bridge over the river kwai as a day trip and loved it! We got to go on the train, got to walk over the bridge and got to the museum! Stephen was in awe he just loved it! Me and gary had a good day but i think it was stephens highlight of the trip so far! We had a long drive back to bangkok where we caught a plane at 10 for Chang Mai! A Lot of traveling in one day bu...

OK so here goes, Quin set the tone for the rest of our journey in HEATHROW...he said "i don't know if im cut out for this travelling stuff" We hadnt even left the UK and he had done too much travelling. We survived the trip though to make it to the crazy city that is Bangkok. We are here little over 24 hours here but have seen a lot of things to allow us to move on swiftly. We slept a lot last night just to get us over our 8000mile journey, and ...