Arrived in Koh Tao on Sunday (i think, ive lost track of the days) and were picked up in a truck to take us to our hotel, which is amazing. It's a dive centre too so you do have to swim around scuba divers doing training in the pool but it's on the edge of the jungle and our balcony looks out over it which is amazing (see pic). Although one criticism, they have leather pillows...yes, i did type that correctly - leather pillow! Its pink leather with a pillow case ...

Ouch, owwww, ahhhhhhh, I think my left arm is about to spontaneously combust...no seriously, someone get a fire blanket. Yes, yes, you'd think I'd learn that being so pale and fair I burn easily, but nnnooo, I just had to sit by the pool until I finished my book The Girl Who Played With Fire (I know, how ironic), and now my arms are sunburnt (the pic doesn't do it justice, it's at least 2nd degree burns!) and I am now having to drink considerable amounts of alco...

Forget trains, planes and automobiles - try 28 hours to Ko Samui by taxi, train, subway, 2 coaches, 2 minibus a boat and a car - oh it's good to be back in Thailand! We left our hotel at 8am on Tuesday, thinking we'd fly to Bangkok then get a quick train and ferry to Ko Samui - we probably should have investigated this a bit more before we got to Bangkok (!) as when we arrived at the train station (via train, a 10 min walk and then subway from the airport) we we...

We moved hotels again yesterday morning (we seem to do about 3 hotels in each city!) because hotel we were in was full the next night. We are now staying in a really nice hotel. Yesterday we decided to do the sightseeing bus around Singapore, it took us half the day to find it but we eventually did and headed to the top deck to sit in the sun (you could tell we were the only English people on the bus as everyone else was sitting in the shade at the back while w...

We were up early for the boat back to Gili Trawangan and took the little island hopper back across, but frankly we may as well have swam! The water was extremely choppy and we all got drenched with each wave to hit the boat, it didn't help that we'd been told that one of the boats had sunk the previous day and all the passengers had to be rescued! We arrived back in Gili T and headed back to our hotel, we arrived to a very surprised hotel owner who asked how we ...