We love Bangkok! Before we arrived we had heard mixed reviews of the city being big and busy and chaotic, which it undoubtedly is, yet I found it also to have a lot of life and character. It was nice I see such a variety of people here. I liked it! We've had some chilled out last few days in the country, although we've still done a lot! One day we managed to have breakfast by 2pm then we tried again at the Grand Palace and actually went in this time! They have...

This morning we decided to go for a little look around Bangkok. As Jade didn't get much sleep on the overnight train, she decided to have a nap at the hostel. As she has been to Bangkok before, Sally, Ruth and me decided to go and see the Grand Palace as Jade didn't want to go here again. The hostel puts on a golf buggy to shuttle us to the nearest sky train station, which is about a five minute drive away. From here, we took a couple of sky trains then a river b...

We have just arrived in Bangkok, and this is our last stop for south-east Asia before we fly to Australia on Saturday. We had a pretty standard, uneventful night train journey from Laos over to Bangkok although I think Sally and Jade were kept awake down their end of the train by a drunk guy being sick in his bed! Our hostel is a little out of the way, but it's really nice and clean. Our taxi driver had a laugh trying to find it! We are here for 3 nights so wil...

The rest of our train journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai was very very long and uncomfortable! A few hours in, they gave us some really fishy rice, which I think the only purpose for giving us it was to make us all feel a bit sick! We did arrive late as expected, but on the whole it was an uneventful 13 hour journey. We took a taxi from the station to our hostel called Gong Kaew in the old town of Chiang Mai. We had heard and saw the old town looked very nice, i...

Yesterday we left the comfort of our beach side bungalows to get a boat from Koh Phangan island over to the mainland. We were however in the wrong taxi so had to pay a couple of pounds to get there. Jade wasn't feeling too well, we think she's picked up a bug so the boat ride definitely wasn't what she needed! As it was just after the full moon party, all the boats were very busy and the sea was really rough. It was so rocky and packed! Sally and me sat in the t...