Early start from Bangkok and I was torn between fast trains with a dodgy ankle or a taxi that could be stuck in traffic for ages.I decided to suck it up and be a man so threw on my rucksack and was in agony before I even turned the first corner. Anyhow I made it on time to Bangkok airport and flew via Kua Lumpur to Denpasar. I had been warned that Kuta was cheap rowdy and full of surfers, but decided to stay as it was close to the airport and my flight got in ...

Another six hour journey and we arrived at our hotel. As we were on a budget we had booked in to a cheap hotel and it was awful. Full of scum bags. As we were tired from the journey and had already paid for the night we stayed and looked for a better hotel the next day. I got my tablet out to check for emails and noticed a big chunk had come off one of the corners. I had loaned it to Jonnie while we were having breakfast at Korat as I had to run off to the lo...

Jonnie had always wanted to travel to the East but we had never done it. Apparently it was just a few hours on the train, and because it was where all the locals lived everything would be dirt cheap......... So after two hours on the train and still in Bangkok a British man sat near us said that this was unusual. We could only get third class which is basically a wooden bench. In fact ours had a nail sticking out and we both managed to rip our trousers on it....

I felt like kissing the tarmac as I arrived in Thailand. Jonnie arrived the next day and we had a steady night out as we had sworn never to have a repeat of our last first night there where we had gone mental and managed to blow about four hundred quid between us. Jonnie had never been to koh Samui so I suggested we went. It's really easy I said based on my last trip there, we get an overnight sleeper train and then a quick bus ride, an hour on the boat and ...

Ensuring Chucky got a tip big enough to tell the tuk tuk driver the correct train station I was still amazed that i did actually arrive at the correct train station. I was in loads of time as I was there before ten and my train did not leave until after midnight. It was the same as Delhi, jam packed and chaos but not as well sign posted. I knew which platform but had no idea whereabouts the carriage would stop. Bear in mind most trains have around 20 carriag...