Hey everyone! Si and I are now in Ko Samui, after meeting up with our friend Tara in Bangkok. After going out for dinner at the interestingly named "Cabbages and Condoms" (which was actually really nice!) we headed back to Tara's hotel with her, only to find our driver had no idea where he was going and couldn't speak a word of English. Having only our Lonely Planet with us with about 10 words of Thai in it, we managed to work out that Road 55 translat...

Hey everyone! Since we last updated the blog we've been quite busy... We visited the Bridge over the River Kwai, where we got to visit the museum and walk across the bridge, and had a lovely train journey on the original train track, winding through the jungle and mountains. That afternoon we also visited the "tiger temple" where we got to sit next to and touch some (massive!) tigers who were nice and sleepy after having had their lunch. It was a grea...

Well we have finally left India! Suffice to say, Simon and I were both pretty happy about this as the constant hassling and spicy food was getting a bit much! Having said that, India was one of the most eye-opening, exciting and different places we've ever been, and I don't regret going for one second. Before leaving India, we visited Varanasi, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, being about 3,000 years old. It's on the river Ganges, and...