Good news - we made the flight to Australia on the right day! What a cheap skate airline Jet Star are though, not so much as a bloody cup of tea on an 8hr flight. To make matters worse they put the air-con on full blast and charged $8 for a blanket, we protested by spending the entire flight with our arms stuffed inside our t-shirts, and my feet in my hand bag - that'll teach them! Really I should sue them for potentially cauding hypothermia (not that I'm a dra...

Back to Thailand Ko Tao & Ko Pan yang In order to get to Ko Tao logic would suggest there should be a boat from Pattyre across to the islands. Logic doesn't apply in such places unfortunately so we had to spend another 8 hrs on a bus to Bangkok, having already spent 5hrs getting to the border! Then from Bangkok take the night bus to Chumpion another 5 hrs (because the bus was going so slowly). Which dropped us off at 3am, then catch the ferry that didn't ...

Cambodia Siem Reep - Battambang - Kampot - Sihanoukville Having beached ourselves at Ko Chang long enough - well our visa was expiring, we hopped on a bus to Cambodia, which wasn't as easy as it sounds. Firstly we had a mini bus instead of the VIP luxury coach as promised! On the ferry there was a very obvious lady boy selling drinks who was constantly powdering his/her nose in the mirror, which was quite funny. As we neared the Cambodian border we were force...

Ko Chang - A holiday from travelling!! From Ayuthaya we took the VIP bus south to the island of Ko Chang, mainly because it was the cheapest to get to, and the further west islands have been undergoing quite a lot of flooding recently. We headed for Lonely beach as guess what it was the cheapest! We stayed in some basic wooden huts at the Magic garden, not that it was very magical! The first day we took a motorbike out to explore the island as there wasn't m...

Nepal Katmandu - Pokhara - Chitwan park - Katmandu When we first arrived in Katmandu we were mightily impressed at how much nicer the streets were in comparison to the dirty streets of India. That being said we'd had enough of cities, and so took a taxi straight to Pokhara. We probably got conned on the price but were so tired we didn't care! The journey there was brilliant, stunning scenery and fresh mountain air, a welcome change for our lungs! We found ...