So after a long absence I've finally got round to adding to this. Blogging a month at a time seems to be the way I'm going to do it, so no point fighting it anymore. Before I summarise the joys of Thailands beaches, I'd like to use this platform to vent my anger at STA Travel. How I love freedom of speech online. We had a mammoth trip from Bangkok to Buenos Aires with stop oversin Bahrain, Heathrow and Rio. A daft route I know, but the cheapest. We had a 2 hr co...

After Hoi An, we travelled up to Hue, an old imperial city. It was nice to look round the old citadel and palace, and the royal tombs scatttered around the outside. We tried to hire bikes to see the tombs, but after seeing one it starting chucking it down so we abandoned mission and ended up in a random cafe in a small village, with plastic chairs and lots of locals drinking tea and eating pho. After tea and Pho of our own, with chickens running around our fee...

OK, so after a pretty amazing time in Cambodia we headed into Vietnam. Of all the countries, this was the one I was looking forward to the most. Unfortunately, it got off to a bad start, with Both Laura and I getting ill from a restaurant in Phnom Peng, and by the time we got to Saigon we were in a bad way. Turns out there's not much to do in Saigon except drink, so it's not a great place to be when you have the s***s. We spent 3 days there recovering, and af...

At the time, I felt that Cambodia was a bit special, but it was hard to tell so early on in travelling, as I had little to compare it to. Looking back now, it has definately been the highlight so far, the place and the people absolutely blew me away. We started in Siem Reap, to explore the Angkor temples, which surpassed any expectations I had. I'm sure there are incredible ruins all aver the world, but these must rate as some of the best. Countless huge temples...

We spent a few days in Bangkok, getting over jetlag and generally exploring. I had been told not to hang around there too muh as it's not great, but we ended up staying 3 days and really enjoying it. Now I'm back again and really liking it! We arrived at 8pm, but to us it was 2 in the afternoon, so we hit the bars in the hope of drinking uorselves to sleep. We couldn't believe how cheep the beer was at 60p a pint (little did I know that would halve in Cambodi...