The last few days on Koh Tao were ruined a bit by non stop rain and we found the only thing to amuse ourselves with was eating, drinking and watching films with all the other backpackers on big screens in the restaurants on the island. So we were glad we left a day later. The coach back to Bangkok had a lovely decor of turquoise barbie pink and brown, not really what you want to be surrounded by on a long 8 hour coach journey. When we went through Chumpon which...

Well we've not done much this week, which of course was intentional! We have spent this past week in a small bungalow, a basic hut with one room and an en suite (no hot water!). For $2.50 a night each not complaining! It has a great view of the beach and lovely sunsets. We also share the bathroom with a big Gecko Lizard that we've called Gary! He is there every morning and night, and is aslong as your fingers to you elbow with big orange stripes! We hir...

We don't know where to start, have got so much to tell you all!! We have been on out Intrepid trip up to Chiang Mai, stopping at a lot places along the way! So to start, we met our group, there was 12 of us all together good group of people, from all parts of the world, only one other bloke though but Owen didn't seem to mind!! We all seemed to get on really quickly I think it was the 5 hour journey on the train to begin with and none of us stopped t...

Hi everyone! This is our last night in Bangkok before we travel up to Chaing Mai. We've been busy being tourists! We went to a place called Dusit Park which is a royal park next to their equivilent of Buckingham Palace. Dusit Park was a nice break form the usual pollution of the Bangkok streets. They like to show off the royal families various collections of which most are housed in Dusit Park. There was an impressive Teak Mansion once home to a p...

Hi from Thailand! Woohoo we are here!!!!! We have arrived after a long flight and no sleep! Hotel's big, nice and impressive! Its only the first full day but already we've been to the tourist hub of Bangkok, Th Ko Sahn road, 3 wats (temples) taken a delightful trip on a river taxi and a tuk-tuk (they are brilliant!), been to Jim Thompson's House and Sarah's been bitten a zillion times by horrible mosquitoes. When Sarah finally got up (at 9 so I w...