Due to persistent nagging from many parties we are now attempting to update our very neglected blog! It's a work in progress so it may take some time, until then here's a quick synopsis of the Oz adventure so far (and yes we are now in Oz and not still in Phi Phi as the blog would suggest!) We are currently writing to you from a very cold and soggy campsite in Geelong just outside Melbourne. This unexpected Australian weather has haunted us throughout the majo...

Well our arrival into Phi Phi featured the same trials and tribulations as our previous visit. A very sweaty boat ride, next to what can only be described as the most annoying boy in the world! Your rucksack literally buried under the rest of the boats luggage, so you can imagine what issues followed when 120 people are trying to collect their luggage from a 3m space in 3 minutes! Once docked at Phi Phi Don pier, we had to pay 20Bt each (apparently to keep Phi ...

Another early rise and taxi back to the airport to head down to the island of Phuket and more specifically Kata, where we had stayed a couple of years ago. That time primarily because it's the main area for surfing in Thailand, but as this time it's the high season it was flat as a pancake. But we had decided to stay in a hotel with quite possibly the best swimming pool we have ever witnessed, the pool was about 150m in length and snaked its way around the foo...

Another early rise and taxi back to the airport to head down to the island of Phuket and more specifically Kata, where we had stayed a couple of years ago. That time primarily because it's the main area for surfing in Thailand, but as this time it's the high season it was flat as a pancake. But we had decided to stay in a hotel with quite possibly the best swimming pool we have ever witnessed, the pool was about 150m in length and snaked its way around the foo...

We left a very white and frozen Sheffield around on the 17th January 2012, the temperature when we left a balmy -2 oh what a contrast and few hours on a plane was going to make. We boarded our very pleasant Qantas livered Boeing 747 around 10pm ahead of us; not only a 11hr flight to Thailand but 12 months the otherside of the world and I have no idea what lays ahead. The one thing that you immediately notice when you step of the plane in Bangkok's Suvar...