Hi all. Its thursday evening thai time of course and I am finaly in bangkok on the first leg of my trip. After an 11 hour flight from heathrow, my first long haul flight, around 1 hour getting though bangkok airport and then another hour to get to the hostel. First impressions are not great, the traffic is twice as bad as central london, theres what appears to be stray dogs on every corner, and i dont mean prossies! It also has a rather nasty smell out on the st...

Hi all. Its saturday morning and I am about 2 and a half weeks away from setting off for thailand on my around the world trip. I have just set this blog up so this the first blog of many to come. My route at the moment is thailand, australia, new zealand, fiji and usa as things stand. Over the next 2 weeks I have got to make sure that I have got everything that I will need and then try to fit into my backpack. I will try to update this as often as I can, if I get...