Good afternoon to the uk and good late evening from Bangkok. This will be an emotional blog for all concerned im sure as this will be my final one before our return to UK soil. As I currently write this I am in the lobby of a Bangkok hotel and every security thy guard that goes by salutes me. I feel now this is how I should be treated and at all times and will have to suggest that i am treated like a triumphant general on my return with salutes. I will be re-ca...

Good very early morning to the uk and very sunny hello from the islands of Thailand. We pick up the travels from our current position of Ko Phan Ngan and I will catch up and look back fondly on the island of Ko Tao. We had got a 2 hour boat trip over from Ko Samui where we enjoyed a laid back stay without actually doing much. The boat trip was relatively uneventful and I stayed with Tina inside the boat rather than the sunny deck due to her sunburn. We had a sh...

Good afternoon from Ko Samui and good early morning uk. This blog is going to be very short as we did little in Ko Samui but this was a planned relaxation. I currently write this as we are taking a boat from Ko Samui to Ko Tao. Our plan is to stop off at ko pha ngan on the return leg before flying back to Bangkok for our dreaded return back to the cold of England. After a 26 hour journey (taking into account all modes of transport and waiting around) there is...

Good morning England and a good morning from Thailand, well kind of Thailand as it feels more like no mans land at the moment. I write this having so far travelled on a twenty minute taxi, thirty minute train/subway, 2 hour flight all within Singapore. We then had a wait of 4 hours at a Bangkok train station before getting a 11 hour sitting bus to Surat thani which is a port town where we will get a boat ko samui. Phew, exhausting writing but not quite as tiring...

Good morning uk and good afternoon from ko samui as I write this. It's a case of re-tracing steps again but I don't mind so much for this one as it's Bali and it almost writes itself. We had already stayed 2 nights on Bali before taking a bus ride and 2 hour speed boat ride over to the Gili Islands and it was well worth it. Actually I would describe it in 4 words; brilliant, monsoon rain, brilliant. I had high expectations of Bali as a whole but was slightly di...