We spent 3 nights in phuket, we had lots of fun but it was a bit seedy for our liking! We then went to phi phi islands where we stayed for a week because we loved it! It's a beautiful island and we were really lucky with the weather. The highlight was the open water diving course that we took, it was 3 days long and after that we were all qualified scuba divers!! On our first dive we saw a shark, octopus, stingrays, and turtles! (aparently thats really good for...

So we arrived on Koh Phangan on Sunday and we've loved it so much that we stayed for a week. After a 19 hour bus/boat trip (with a very cheesy movie!) we obviously shattered and ended up making a very poor accomodation choice that took us into the middle of nowhere in which the owner resembled Dr Evil!! The huts were VERY basic (i.e no roof on the bathroom and considering it was raining when we arrived it wasn't too much fun!). So, the mission for finding somew...

Hello! And welcome to our first blog here in Bangkok! Here are some vital statistics so far........... The plane journey was relaxing for some (Gemma and Katie) who managed to sleep for 9 of the 12 hours. John and Gareth were not so lucky - a maximum of 20 minutes between them. The drama began when we got to immigration and the girls were hauled aside because they "forgot" to get a departure stamp from last year. After a very apologetic conversation w...