We were supposed to fly from Phuket to Sydney and then on to Brisbane. I'm sure that to anyone reading this it is clear that we didn't make it to Brisbane. The first flight passed without incident and we were given a small console to watch films. This meant that neither Sarah or I slept, I got to watch 'Gran Torino' (great film by the way) and Sarah watch 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'. We arrived in Sydney and got straight through passport control and immigration...

As it was our last destination in Thailand and our last before flying to Brisbane to work for a few months we decided to stay in a nice resort (although it was still cheap). It turned out to be just that!, with 2 swimming pools, and much to Sarah's delight a bath in the room. This meant that we both had several long soaking baths over the three days that we spent there. The only other memorable events that happened was that we had steak for 3 night in a row. Aft...

Our next stop on our comprehensive tour of Thailand was Koh Phi Phi Don which was also hard hit by the tsunami but is a lot more touristy than Koh Lanta so the effects are less clear. Having said this there are signs everywhere declaring the tsunami evacuation route (or should I say a path up a hill side!). The tourists were back and had nice places to stay but the locals were living in a shanty town and still trying to rebuild there own houses which I thought wa...

Our trip to Koh Lanta was a horrible one as we were both incredibly hung over and the boat back to the mainland was definitely not the most pleasant of experiences. Once back on terra-firma we were put on a bus and yet again taken to the middle of nowhere and left for 30 minutes when we were put on another bus for 5 minutes and dropped out the towns bus station. We were left sat on a bench and nobody had had the decency to tell us what was happening so after 2 ho...

The journey from Koh Tao to Railay was an incredibly long night trip. We took an overnight boat from Koh Tao back to the mainland which was an odd experience as there was approxiamately 50 people laid on what can only be described as two really long mattresses. We were allocated a spot and were laid shoulder to shoulder with the stranger next to you. Intimate is not the word!! The night was made all the more uncomfortable by the fact that all the windows were ope...