first of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAADDDD! I kind of remembered it was around now!!! The new year festival here (songkran) lasts 3 days. So after my last journal entry, things got a bit serious with the old water fighting. The next day half of thailand descended on the tiny street we were saying on! We went to meet some friends at 7 pm but didn't meet them till 11 pm it was so crowded. Unconscious people and small children were being passed out of the crowds and ...

happy new year! in thailand it is their new year and it is now year 2549 I think!! So to celebrate they have this massive water fight on Khao San Road in the center of BAngkok and yesterday we spent about 6 hours in the maddest water fight you have ever seen. Everyone has water guns and just running around getting absolutely drenched. It is meant to send blessings for the new year!!! They also apply this clay-like stuff to your face and it is really horrible be...

Hello from Cambodia!!! As soon as you cross over from the Thai border to Poi Pet (Cambodia) you can see that this country is so much poorer but it is absolutely amazing here. It took 14 hours to travel to siem reap from bangkok and the roads in cambodia are pot holded and mud tracks, so not the most comfortable journey. We were also perched on weird small chairs the whole way and think our tiredness numbed the pain and heat. We have never sweated so muc...

Today was a day from hell...... We got the overnight train from Surat Thani to Bangkok. There were not many spaces left on the train so I sat in car 3 while Tasha and Rhia took seats in car 1. What could go wrong with that eh? Only 2 cars away I hear you say? Well.... that's also what I thought as I sat through 9 hours of broken sleep on my own. Any way it was 5 am in the morning, the train was due to arrive in about 20 minutes and we arrived at a s...

Sawasdee ITs good to know some of you are becomming regulars to my travel journey! Thank you so much for your messages and emails, despite living in paradise it is good to hear news from the grey british isles! So we have been sunning it up on Ko Phangnan for a couple of days, some of you may know this as the infamous island of full moon parties. We didn't stick around to experience one but have hear they are very messy. The beach was so good but so fu...