Our three weeks on the Thai island of Koh Samui are up. Tomorrow we head for China, which as the crow flies is 'just over there'. We are going the scenic route, via Bangkok and Singapore will lengthy layovers in between. Door to door, we are looking at 26 hours. Just 7 weeks remain of our allseven trip. We are now on the move big time, so keep your browsers open and your "we follow allseven" t-shirts on your backs! Right then, lets get on with...

We discovered last night, that we are considered 'movers' at our hotel. Most patrons books months in advance and come back time and again. We battled for two days to be accepted and have since moved rooms on three occassions to fit in with their plans. Now a VIP is arriving on Sunday and we have been hoofed out of our poolside bungalow to a less amiable room at tha back of the lot. For the first time on this trip, complaining brought no reward. Just an ex...

Sixteen hooky DVD’s, a handful of new release CD’s, an entire business attire collection for our return to London, and the best Rolex copy watch a handful of Baht can buy and our list of tasks was complete in Bangkok. Well, sort of anyway. Six nights in the infamous SAS crew hotel, The Rembrandt, passed in a flash. The daily trip to the tailor took up most of each morning. The penny dropped in the nick of time that we required a Chinese visa and we be...