Exciting day today, we finally got out of Bangkok after 5 days and headed to the Burma/Thailand province of Kanchanaburi to visit the Tiger temple and River Kwai. After breakfast we got picked up by a mini bus that was supposed to take us on our trip. We were given stickers to wear so we knew which group we were in - team exciting (well the sticker said exciting team but that's just a technicality!). If we thought the mini bus was just for people doing the tour,...

Today we went to see another of the apparently must do things in Bangkok - the huge Chatuchak weekend market, all 35 acres of it! I'm not joking, it's huge, at one point we got a little bit lost. I was reminded of that episode of Father Ted and the department store!! They have a few main streets selling everything from clothes to furniture and off these streets are lots of other alleyways selling absolutely everything you can think of (even little puppies and bun...

Bit of a lazy day had by all today. Basically we ate, we drank, we saw some sights, we played cards, we drank some more! After breakfast, whilst Fran and Sam went off to be tortured (sorry I mean massaged), I went and treated myself to an iced coffee. Somehow I managed to make this last over an hour and it wasn't long before the girls were back to join me. Myself and Fran decided that at some point we needed to book a flight from somewhere to some place in Aust...

Mega sleep number 1 accomplished!! Somehow managed to sleep until lunchtime, haven't done that since probably the last time I slept in a hostel, clearly I'm not normal! Whilst I caught some Zeds, Fran and Sam managed to get showered, dressed, had 2 cups of tea/coffee, made friends, organised a night out and Sam even managed to get a hair cut, all without my knowledge!! When I finally woke up (after some gentle shouting, just to make sure I was still alive), we ...