I'm going to completely cheat and copy someone else's description of Loy Krathong festival off the tinternet like! I know it won't be as interesting as my words (of course) but it will do as an explanation to what's going on in the photo album I've posted! Loy Krathong In November some may wonder what is going on in Thailand when seeing travel magazine ads, posters at your hotel of Thai girls dressing in traditional Thai clothing with a beautiful floating obje...

English hotel - hot water, clean, comfy, enjoyable. Thai hotel - my god, we have it good in England! If I hadn't been told it was a guest house, I wouldn't have known! Down a narrow alley, protected by a pack of angry-looking, mangy, diseased dogs, on rotten wood stilts over the sea and smells of toilets! The bed was stained, the bin still full of the last inhabitants toilet tissue (no you can't flush it in T-land) and the staff were pissed off with us paying Tha...

I got here ok! Touched down in Bangkok airport around 8am Wednesday 5th, after the best flight ever with Jet Airways to India (my own TV screen, choice of movies, lots of Indian food) followed by my worst airport experience ever in Mumbai (terrible organization, crazy officials with guns shouting at us, hoards of Indian ladies barging us out of the way to get in front) which confirmed my lack of desire to travel to such a chaotic country…couldn't handle the no ...

The journey started on Monday 3rd November with a 3pm coach trip from Milton Keynes to London (which we nearly missed!). Maryam & I were met at Victoria station by Nils, Graham & Silvina for some final farewells…and some slating about the size/weight of my rucksack. Decided to offload my mozzie net to Graham (malaria? What malaria?) which relieved me of, oh lets see, about ฝ pound! Will have to review the situation in Thailand or see if I can buy a ne...