Our first ever sleeper train was booked, we had asked to be booked onto the 7pm but the hotel booked the wrong day so we ended up getting some of the last spaces on the 11pm instead, never mind got to spend more time with Lianne before she left at 9pm to make her way back to our home town in England. I was a little nervous about how this may go. When we turned up at the station there didn't seem to be many tourists, it was mainly Vietnamese, so now, the question...

Liane, Leanne and Alice where all waiting in the boarding lounge at Don Muang airport ready to board our 7am flight leaving the beautiful islands of thailand to arrive at the bustling Hanoi! After trying to work out the currency in the departure lobby if the airport I drew out a 200000 note - IM RICH .... Nah not really that's about £6 that should keep me going till the next ATM cheap as chips over here ha! Another taxi to Hanoi old town hotel and oh my days a...

Time to leave the beautiful and ideal Mantra Samui hotel, sayin bye to the lush cocktails, massages and most importantly - SUN! We had a shared a taxi to the airport and got chatting some more funny and friendly Australians (networking guys, networking ha), we were all heading to the same place, Bangkok. So first it was a taxi to the port, then a coach to the ferry, a ferry to Surat Thani, back on the coach to the airport and then checkin for the flight to Don M...

So we've made it back to Koh Samui and arrived at Mantra Samui, the lush hotel that has inspirational quotes all over the place - Staff shirts, pathways, attached to objects around the room with different ones being left on the bed each morning ..."You are a perishable item - live accordingly" Love it! Since this place was a spa retreat it was only right to book ourselves in for a 2hr massage for the following morning! We choose a full body massage with foot re...

Phuket ✔ Phi Phi ✔ Koh Samui ✔ Koh Phagnan ✔ What better way to bring in 2014 than on the shoulders of a hunk of a Norwegian, over looking the whole of Haad Rin beach for the famous Full Moon Party. Gazing over a million and one people from all over the world celebrating 12 bells, the sky was magically lit by the most amazing fireworks ever witnessed, surrounded by a great group of fellow travellers from home - HAPPY NEW YEAR from one lucky and bles...