Thursday 7th June and the weather was much better. The group split up - Jamie, Em, Craig, Nick, Nick and Sammy went off to the water park, whilst Dan, Dan, Chris and Zach headed for the golf course. Em and J set off nice and early, starting at Wet & Wild (a supposedly extreme water park), however it was empty and looked average at best. They moved onto Dreamworld, a clumsy, badly-thought out theme park supposed to be Australia's top tourist attraction. It was...

We arrived in the land of Oz in the early hours of Thursday morning after a suprisingly easy Quantas-inspired flight from Singapore. How Quantas got voted as the world's worst international airline in a recent survey seems ridiculous to us! We arrived at Maze - a cheap backpackers hostel in the centre of Sydney at 5.30am (cost 12pound per night and not even ensuite! Bare in mind that our 4* hotel in KL cost merely 4pound more!). Having had no sleep on the pla...

On Monday 14th April we left for Ko Phi Phi - a seriously hench journey! Anyway after 3 buses, 2 boats, 1 songthaw and a partridge in a pear tree, we arrived to an absolutely beautiful island, surrounded by limestone cliffs and clear blue water. After much contemplation and backpacking around the various sea-front hotels, we picked the nice enough Andaman Beach resort. After a not so convincing dinner, we headed to Apache, a backpacking magnet of a club. Even so,...

Major apologies for not writing again sooner, but the internet price on the islands has been rather extortionate...2 baht/min - 1.50pound an hour! Right, the night after our last entry we went to play pool in a bar in Kanch with two seemingly normal women (it wasn't until later we realised that they were actually prostitutes...)! The following day we bode farewell to our legendary tour group of Alan and Ann - The Ozziess, Will - the posh public schoolboy and ...

Wow we have done a hell of a lot since our last entry! On Tuesday the 24th April, Jamie attended a Thai cookery course - he proclaims to have cooked Pad Thai with chicken, spicy thai soup, green curry and sticky rice with mango for desert! Later that day we drove up the mountains to an amazing temple. After climbing 300 or so steps, Jamie was blessed by a Buddhist monk and we both lit candels in honour of the Lord Buddha (may he rest in peace). Noi, our legendary...