Happy New Year! Kav and I landed in Cambodia this morning (3rd Jan), and so while he's off taking photos of the sunset at Angkor Wat, I'm going to tell you about our week on Koh Tao. After the awful journey over on the overnight train and rocky boat we were met at Koh Tao's Mae Head Pier by a driver from our hotel, the Koh Tao Resort. See, months and months ago when we were only going on holiday for a few weeks we booked an amazing room at this resort in their...

So I know some of you will be wondering about our Christmas evening meal at Sirocco - apologies that I missed that out in my last blog. To put it mildly, it was sensational, one of the most incredible things I think either of us has been to. After Kav returned from the market, we spent Christmas Day walking around the shopping centres which were heaving with Saturday shoppers, and then stopping for lunch in the Siam Paragon food court where we had some delicious...

So I think it's safe to say that Kav and I are having some problems. Sleeping problems that is. We've been away a week and we're still not settled into a normal sleep pattern. The problem started with the usual 7 hour time difference between the UK and Thailand but add a 5 hour airport delay and you lose a day in 'time travel', or is that travel time?, plus you get so little sleep on a plane, and not proper sleep at that. Next time Dad, can we fly Business Class ...

First of all - a very Merry Christmas to you all! It's 7.30am on Christmas morning in Bangkok, we've been awake since 5.30am (from jetlag, not child-like anticipation!) and I'm actually now sat in bed writing this entry, but with one eye watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation on our other laptop. I, of course, insisted on bringing plenty of Christmas movies and music if I was being made to spend Christmas away from home. But I'm not sure anything can ma...