The 28 Hour Journey to Sukhothai Today we would experience (read as 'endure') the wonders of the State Railway of Thailand for the first time. A very long time in fact, thus providing ample opportunities for impromptu randomness to occur. The first installment of said randomness took place aboard the overnight sleeper train. There's not much to be said really about the night time as everyone except me (as usual) was was asleep, although I did realise during m...

Ko Pha-Ngan, Gulf of Thailand Another destination, another journey. Two boats & two busses to be precise and it still didn't take that much longer than getting from South Manchester to Oldham during rush hour! This was probably my favourite journey so far on this trip - had one of those near-nirvana moments whilst watching the sunset perched on the edge of the ferry listening to Southern Sun. I'm sure everyone saw me dancing away to myself, but I didn't real...

Railey Beach (Rai Leh) Still haven't decided what was fitter - the beach or the vanilla shake. *Dreams of vanilla shake. Mmmm*. Railey - a proper tropical paradise like you've always imagined - white sand, jungle, mangrove forest, longboats... it has it all. Railey is actually a group of three main beaches surrounding a headland that juts southward from the Andaman Sea coast, and is surrounded by impenetrable rainforest & rock formations that offer the best...

Today was largely spent having a coffee & reading the paper (could have saved thousands if I'd just stayed at home & done that haha), and I stumbled accross these two articles in the Bangkok Post which I think are worthy of publication on here. Note that this is the country that reports the reasons for it's president's ousting due to a vote rigging scandal as 'the former president engaged in illegal participation on two cookery programmes on commercial t...

Bangkok (1st Visit) In true backpaker style, we started our Thai adventure on Th Khao San - the grimy & dirty but enormously characterful location that grew notoriety through the film The Beach. After such a long journey even the worst flea pit would seem appealing, so we gladly checked into Lek Ghesthouse at the heart of the main drag. The rooms were like shoe boxes and the bathroom facilities can't exactly be described as five star (or any star for that ...