We arrived in Phuket on a beautiful, warm and sunny evening.This was much appreciated after the rain in Samui!We were staying in Karon Café, which was surprisingly nice considering how cheap it was.We even got a fridge which we filled with cans of Singha on the first night! Unfortunately on the second day the rain found us again so we went across to a bigger resort affiliated to our hotel to make use of their rooftop pool and sunloungers…in the rain.This wa...

Our first couple of days on Samui were spent negotiating our way past street sellers (and beach sellers) who were offering an endless array of tat. Considering the number of shops it was strange to see the lack of choice available, with every row of three shops a carbon copy of the next. We booked on to an island tour to visit all 6 of Samui's attractions. The first stop was Plai Laem Temple - a tacky Samui shrine that looked more like a crazy golf course than...

We arrived in Koh Tao after a very long coach trip and bumpy catamaran ride in the early morning and saw our first Thai sunrise whilst waiting for the boat. We were pretty disappointed when we arrived at our hotel on Koh Tao but after hearing stories about other people's rooms decided it was better to stick with what we had and put it all down to being spoilt by Nornlen in Bangkok! We had our first classroom lesson for diving that evening - it was very strang...

Hello everyone, this is our last day in Bangkok so we wanted to write about everything we have done here before we move onto Koh Tao. After our trip to the Grand Palace we ventured across to China Town. This district of the city is probably the busiest place we have ever been in our lives. We were instantly engulfed by endless tunnels of markets and swarms of people. We didn't actually manage to take any pictures here because stopping to get the camera out of t...

Hello! After hauling two bursting rucksacks across London (including an interesting hour on a packed tube train) we made it to Heathrow. A few hours of waiting led us to discover that although we brought a pack of cards neither of us actually know any card games other than solitaire - how anti-social?! 11 hours later and we were in Bangkok. Once we had arrived at our hotel there was time to eat, soak up the enormity of a nearby thunderstorm and then sleep. ...