Ha Long bay; the big reunion. I'm not quite sure how we managed to get everyone together but we did it. Must say, I'm glad we pulled it off because that was a lot of organising to do. I had multiple Facebook and WhatsAp conversations with everyone to sort it out - go me!! Sorry, you're probably wondering who 'everyone' is. Well it's Christa from the east coast of Aus, Andy, Bryony, Tash and Char from the Thailand crew, Nelen (formally known as Helen), Hatem and S...

We were all so excited to be hitting our 7th country, the coastal country of Vietnam. Our first stop was the capital city of Hanoi. Kate and I were meeting Liv there as we booked separate flights due to their boys being out here. Kate and I did intend on having an early night but we were crammed in my box room with the little bed to share and it was pretty sweaty so wasn't going to be good sleeping conditions. Think we headed to bed around 1.30am. At 3.30am we ha...

After sometime in the lovely Chiang Mai, I headed down to Bangkok and to be frank with you I was nothing but lazy so unfortunately there isn't much to report. I basically watched nearly two seasons of The Wire. Spent a lot of time on the Internet, researching upcoming counties were visiting and various other pointless things. I bought a new book; 'Mr Nice'. I had far to much sleep and way over ate for no reason. I did try to be a tourist on a few days but I never...

Chiang Mai. *Warning* its a long blog. Kelly, CJ and I arrived up north around 6am after quite a reasonable over night 14 hour bus journey. We scrambled around for our rucksacks in the mountain of bags that had been piled off the bus, all the while being hassled by locals.. Taxi, taxi, you want accommodation, you want bed.. Not exactly what you want in your ear as you've just woken up. CJ spoke to one guy who would give us a bed for 100 baht each in 3 person ro...

Here we was on Koh Phi Phi, the island with lots of sad history. They had a dreadful tsunami here on Boxing Day of 2004 that wiped out the whole island. Not sure if you remember the news that day but it felt so real being here. I had to get off the boat as quickly as possible, we had just docked and all I knew was I needed to get to a bathroom. The illness was still with me, I paid my 20baht island entry fee and ran on, dumping my bags and finding a toilet, the g...