The time when I spent less then 24 hours in Phuket. It was due to be longer by the eastern side of the island turned me off it instantly. We arrived after our surprisingly good ferry journey from Phi Phi. It was a struggle to find our pre booked mini bus, we were told to go to several different people, apparently pointing in the distance and shouting 'number 10 number 10' is giving us good directions. Finally in the taxi bus we sat in the hussle and bustle of th...

We arrived in Koh Tao and after that journey I just wanted a hostel bed but we hasn't managed to book anywhere so we was just having to turn up, the difficult part was that there was 8 of us. We jumped in a taxi and went to the other side of the island called Sairee Beach, this is the main part of the island and where all the backpackers stay. The streets were real thin and only big enough for people and scooters with shops either side. Luckily we only walked for...

We arrived on Koh Phangan in the sopping rain, half refusing to get off the ferry in that weather. I put my waterproof cover on my bag and got on our way! We ran (I hobbled) to the nearest shelter and tried to spot where to flag a taxi from. The rain wasn't easing up so we had to just man up and get on with it, we walked about 200 metres to the taxi point, by this time we were drenched through and there was about 5cm of water on the ground, slipping and sliding i...

We were all so shattered on the flight to Thailand, all we wanted to do was sleep but the chairs were obviously built for Asians (we flew AirAsia so I shouldn't be surprised), the chairs were minuscule, had to sit bolt up right because all our knees were touching the chairs in front. It was only a 90 minute flight but it was 90 minutes to long. Kate and I started to watch The Wire but before we had even taken off the battery went, we tried to tried to put a pillo...

We decided to use Kuala Lumpur as more of a chill out time rather then another busy sightseeing city. We have been to 4 big cities recently, all offering different things so by now, were pretty exhausted. The 6 hour bus journey from Singapore was a bit of luxury bus in the end, each had our own TV's, fully reclining seats, masses of leg room - it was honestly better then most flights I've been on. We sussed out the KL MRT system and made our way to our hostel cal...