Although we arrived late to Chiang Mai we were pleasantly suprised by the guesthouse we had booked (Green Tulip House) although Ash had done the trip advisor check on the place and forgot to mention to me about one of the mad owners 'Stella' who people had mentioned on the reviews. Although lovely and very helpful she was very loud for a thai lady and broke out in air guitar and random singing and dancing everynow and then! She had a glass of red wine in her hand...

Our second day in Bangkok (Sunday) took us to the weekend market at Chatuchak park; wow what an experience! Although myself and Jenny had spent rather a long day there on my previous trip to Thailand I forgot how hectic and big it was. Ash was on the hunt for shorts which after a 2 hour search, he mamaged to buy some fromk the first stall we looked at (always the case hey!). I also took Ash to the market on the Sky train which gave him th chance to see the city f...

Although we arrived to rain in Bangkok, our spirits were high as we had a great flight from Hong Kong and we were feeling excited about the new adventures that lied ahead. We both still cant believe that we`re only a week down and many more to go. I have to keep telling myself to chill out and sllllloooooooooooowwwwwwwww down. April pace is far too fast for Asia! Another pleasing hostel in Bangkok thanks to Dunc and Ness`s recommendation: Lamphu House is a great...

So the weather continued to be good, sun shining which made it even more pleasant to wander around. For our last day we decided to hit the beach. We went to a place called Stanley which is on the south side of Hong Kong Island. We had a much easier experience on the buses compared to the previous day in Macau and enjoyed lazing on the sand. Ash even went for a swim in the sea! On the evening we met up with Munk again and Judy for some food and traditional Hong K...

We decided to head off to Lantau Island for the day on Monday. The sun was shining and so we really enjoyed walking around the big buddha and Po Lin Monastry. Unfortunately I nearly got us on the wrong ferry but we soon realised. This wasnt as bad as my earlier "April moment" (im sure there are going to be plenty of these!) when I woke up the first night in panic of where i`d left the door key. After routing around for 5 minutes I opened the door to rea...