Had a brilliant few days in Chiang Mai - was a long journey getting here (although we were on a double decker bus with only 5 others) but were finally met off the bus at 6 in the morning by our Guest House owner Dong which was a relief, drove past loads of flooding on the way up here, all you could see of some houses were their roof tops, was really bad. All knackered and achey so have a sleep until midday. Go to the Saturday night market in the evening, Sian an...

Arrive in koh samui - lush weather at last - amazing beach near our 'convotel' aka hotel - staying in Chaweng near Ark bar - the main bar on samui apparantly. Head down to the beach for afternoon, lovely swim in the sea - all want to do jet skiing but abit too pricey for our traveller budget!have dinner then it pisses down with rain - thunder and lightening, all still knackered from last night so earliesh night. Would have liked to stay abit longer in samui but a...

Full Moon day - Go to the internet cafe and book our flight from Laos to Vietnam for 6th October, Matt book his flight to New Zealand for around the sane date then will meet up with him again in oz in nov. Get full moon stuff sorted - tops and uv paint, glow sticks etc then get ready - paint flower design on sians leg and cover matt in uv paint - very unartistic!get sangsom buckets and head down to the beach which was absolutely rammed, wicked atmosphere! me and ...

Thurs 8th - Leave koh tao and get slow boat to Koh Phangan - bungalow about a 10 minute walk from the full moon beach, the row of bungalows we are in leads down to a beach but not a very nice one but its a beach none the less! really cute bungalow with balcony and when we got back from exploring a man had hung a hammock up for us! Nice guys from Ireland and Blackpool next door. Have a general look around the area, loads of full moon clothe shops then watch hangov...

Have to be up at 5.45 for last day of diving course- got to the fisrt diving site and start to descend - my ears had been quite painful yday and when i went to equalise my eardrums felt like they were going to burst - so painful and we had only gone down a few metres and were supposed to be going to 18m. Had to go back up the surface and couldnt do the last 2 dives - really gutted, had to sit on the boat and wait for the others to finish- the driver on the boat g...