Anna I think you're almost home! And much as I've enjoyed travelling vicariously through you both, I am glad - looking foward to seeing you both soon, Anna xxx

Sinead Prawn Park!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dara u loser for dragging Emma there !!!

Emer Hi guys We're launching a community guide in New Zealand and are after great content from backpackers like this. We would love to use this entry and would provide a link to your blog, fully reference the info etc if you were keen? Thanks

Will You looking skinny boy! If you're not careful you'll be skinnier than me! Photos all look cool, looks a bit colder there than Blighty at the mo, thankfully my palms trees are giving us some shade at the mo. I'm off to go fishing for some red snapper in the River Wandle. All keeping well otherwise, just a lack of sleep.

Sinead Hey love whitsunday pics ( cause I love the solway lass :) ) look very cool sitting in the netting. hope enjoying NZ and not freezing in the tin can :)

Lianre Hey hey peeps,Loving the stories and glad to hear it's all going great still! Em - I did a surf lesson in rainbow beach and wa utter crap too. There's a great photo of me looking like a real surf babe but it all underwater tricks...Dara - I worked at the MCG for the Comm games - It's a big place and I used to have do laps of thing daily cos of course everything was miles apart!!!Lots of love - when do we get to see your lovely faces back here then??Lx

Jo Hello Em and Mac. You both look so well. I'm really glad you're having such an amazing time! Love Jo x

T Big Mac, what the hell has happened? you are so thin, you've lost so much weight, your a plain burger now! Ps Margie said your gonna get a lollipop head if you lose any more! Glad your having fun, we miss you xx

ciara hey, you sound like you are having fun

Kerry Alden-Collins Emma,Loving the blog and the photos - great stuff! Sounds like you are having a fantastic time. Keep on trucking!!Kx

maria Had a bit of a disaster wiped everything off computer but somehow have discovered today that I had saved your email address elsewhere!!!.It all looks fantastic weather here is very hot.Alright if you are not working.Brownies and Guides going from strength to strength. Take care. Maria

Paul from Samui Island Hotels I saw this online and just wanted to complimented your thurough description of your stay at "The Spa" on Samui. I had always wondered what the whole thing was like. I hope you liked Krabi - my wife and I just got back from a visit there and we loved it, loved it, loved it. You are not the first one to find Thai Massage rough, of course, but be advised from a local (that is me) that you can ask for it to be softer, or harder, depending on your preference - that is the amount of force the massues uses is not part of "Thai Massage" - it is rather a matter of preference and if you are able to communicate with your provider! :) Well, good luck with the rest of your trip. I hope you have a lovely stay. All the best, Paul

Anna I can't tell you how tropical it is in the UK at the moment; we've closed down all the businesses due to the astonishing heatwave and so all the office workers are sunbathing on impromptu beaches lining the Thames, there are palm trees waving in gentle breezes down the Kilburn High Road, I personally am so brown that my own mother doesn't recognise me and London smells of coconut and hibiscus flowers. Honest.

Mairead Get rid of the goatie/beard/ uky thing on your face.