touched down in darwin after a fairly easy flight from singapore in the hopes of bright sushine and hot weather. we got the hot weather but it was raining pretty hard. our taxi driver informed us it was the start of the wet season up north and would probably last till april time....thanks STA for that one. once we had found a hostel we had been told about (melalouca on mitchell) we settled into a hot and sweaty room that smelt of damp....great start.our ac was th...

as we wait in the hostel for our time to hit the airport i thought i may aswell update this thing with more photos and blogs, as you can see pedro has crumbled under peer pressure and got one of our travelling friends to shave his head, when in rome (or even singapore!). found a really good hostel in little india, fairly cheap...new and clean. unfortunately singapore is very expensive and a bit of a shock to the pocket after thailand. for example one bottle of be...

since leaving koh tao we have been to koh phangnan, koh samui, phuket, phi phi and back to phuket. its our last day in thailand as we fly to kuala lumpur in the morning. in summary of the last islands...... koh pagnan - unfortunately we spent the whole time we were on this island with a group of friends and we kinda ended up in a mini benidorm. it ended up like being in the adders clubhouse but really sunny. we managed to get to a black moon party (well 2 of us ...

so we are on day three of our diving course, got throught the swimming pool session yesterday with no problems and we are off this afternoon for the first two of our free water dives. koh tao is amazing and such a change from bankok (thankfully no more pushy street vendors) all of us have decided we could easily live the koh tao lifestyle. sitting in a bar overlooking the sea with a few badly subtitled films on in the background. the bungalow we got with the divi...

So we stopped drinking at 9am this morning and got out of bed at 4pm this afternoon. Some people might say that was a waste of a day...i would say HOLD YA... we represented our country with pride and honour bringing people from many diffreent nations together simply with the use of a matchbox and some top notch banter! Met my friend travis who i lived with in killington last night which was quite surreal seen as we arein bangkok!? The beer is pretty lethal here ...