Today was our third full day in Bangkok, so we decided to actually do some touristy things for once! We caught a taxi to The Grand Palace (after the first taxi driver we asked didn't seem to know where it was!) and read the strict regulations about what you could and couldn't wear. Dave and Chris were OK as they had worn long trousers, but I thought my shorts weren't long enough so queued up to hire a sarang which you can do for free. But when I got to the fron...

After last night's exploits, we all slept until late and didn't make it out of the hotel until early afternoon! Our first stop was the main train station to arrange our transport to and from Chaing Mai. We also needed to sort out how we would get to the island of Koh Phangan next week for the infamous Full Moon Party! Outside the station, we were stopped by a very helpful lady with an official looking government ID on who explained to us all of the options in v...

We got up early today as we wanted to visit the Chatuchack market, which Ste and Emma had told us about. It's a huge outdoor market with over 22,000 stalls, held on a weekend. We had to show our taxi driver where it was on our map - surely it's quite a famous market?! - and arrived nice and early. There were a few things we wanted to look for - mainly Tshirts and presents to take home, but we didn't desperately need anything, so we enjoyed browsing the many many ...

Bangkok bound… We headed out of the hostel this morning to find some breakfast and found a small café just along the road - 2 'American' breakfasts (basically a fry up!) went down very well as we watched some Bollywood dancing on the Indian music channel! We went back to the hostel to check out and hung around for a couple of hours chatting to the owner and a couple of young Malaysian kids that were visiting him. The little girl liked watching Laura draw and ...

This was our one and only day on the island of Penang, as tomorrow we fly to Bangkok to meet up with Chris. We considered our options of how to spend the day - Cody had suggested hiking in the National Park - too hot, we could go to the beach - too hot, or get the bus to Georgetown and explore some of the world heritage city, hopefully including some air conditioned buildings - sold! We got up at a reasonable-ish time as we wanted to make the most of our sight-s...