We arrive in Chiang Mai after a short flight and unpack quickly, excited about staying in the same place for 5 nights! We asked for an upgrade which they agreed to, the room is gorgeous. We go to the pool and after a short spell chatting on a sunbed we make the decision that Martin should see a doctor.In Phuket he got bitten by an insect (we don't know what) but it has become very swollen and it appears to be spreading, the cream we got from the pharmacy isn't ...

We were a bit hungover after our night out in Samui so the next day we chilled out and arranged the onward transport to Phuket. We travelled during the day and got taken early to a boat then waited a while for a bus....what a bus it was! The air con kept cutting out and the driver had to keep stopping the bus and getting off to fix it, thank goodness he did! The bus had no other tourists, just thai folk who seemed relaxed as the bus broke heavily round most ben...

The overnight journey from Cha-am to Ko Samui was long especially waiting at the pier for two hours for the boat, the wooden jetty to the boat at Chumpon was hilarious.....it had no railing of any kind, it stretched a couple of hundred metres into the sea and it had holes in it! We made our way cautiously with our heavy packs and were relieved when the boat arrived at Ko Samui and we made it to our hotel. Starving we went out to find some food and look around, t...

Next morning we were still trying to finalise our onward travel plans, the journey ahead was daunting with the first bus journey being two hours long with no air con, fortunately I noticed a sign for a mini van to hua hin, only thirty minutes from Cha-am so we asked them to drop us off.When we arrived we were confronted by the usual swarm of taxi drivers, we agreed a price before being shown two motorbikes, laden with our packs we decided against it and asked for...

We left Bangkok and headed to the Southern bus terminal to catch the local bus to Kanchanaburi.Even the staff in our hotel tried to direct us elsewhere to use the tourist services but we persisted and got the £2 local bus. When we arrived we phoned the guesthouse who came to collect us in a 'taxi', it was a moped with a cage attached to the side but the normal mode of transport for this area we came to find.The location of the guesthouse is right on the river, i...