So... After we rushed our little bottoms off to get off the slow boat, on to a tuk tuk to check out of Laos, back on another boat to check into Thailand and to where we should get the connecting bus from, it turns out we needn't have bothered. The lovely people at the travel company we had booked our seats with had already sold then on!!!!! We were told we wouldn't be going until the next morning to which we both politely disagreed with and argued for a good 15 ...

We decided that due to the celebrations still going on in Thailand, we couldn't do the tourist thing in Bangkok. So we would move on to Cambodia and do Bangkok when we go back to meet Davey 5 Pies in June :-) We looked at the trains and found one at 5:55, a lovely 4 am start, ouch!! We got to the train station, got our tickets and found the right train, go us!! After taking our seat for the 6 hour train journey we settled back to enjoy the scenery. This was a r...

After about 12 hours of sleep we decided that it was time we headed out and explored Bangkok. With this plan in mind we got ready and headed out for a day of new sights, sounds and experiences. Although this is exactly what happened it came in a very different form than we were expecting. We quickly found out that the 'water festival' was actually Thai new year celebrations, which is basically a MASSIVE water fight, which goes on for 3 days. We left our hostel ...

So... We spent what felt like a lifetime on planes and in airports but we eventually got to Bangkok airport. Which was very nice until we stepped outside and got hit by 30oC heat. We found the taxi rank and after pointing to where we wanted to be on a little note Belle made we got taken to a car. He was helpful, taking our back packs off our backs and putting them into the boot but when we tried to put the seatbelts on we quickly learnt the hand signal for no. Th...