After leaving ko tao we headed over to krabi province on the west coast, and suddenly realiseing that our thai visa would run out in about 10 days we knew that we'd have to step things up a gear slightly, but only very slightly, still just been chilling on beaches we've just hopped from island to island a bit faster. At the end of my last blog i said that i was tierd and it was just as well 'cause that night we had to get a night boat to the mainland, and just l...

We are now on koh tao just north of ko phangnan and I've gotta start by saying that island life is really growing on me and i'm glad that we went north to laos and cambodia before coming here otherwise i doubt i would have left. Sorry its been a while since our last update but thats because there really hasn't been all that much interesting stuff to write about, island life is slow paced and involves relaxing/recovering during the days while lazing on beaches rea...

I had just typed about 3/4's of this blog and my damn computer just switched off so this entry will probably be alot shorter than it should be but oh well After a long journey from bangkok on a bus where i mangaged to crawl behind the back row of seats and lie down, it was hot as i was on top of the engine but at least i wasnt cramped in the seats, we arrived at about 11 in the morning at the island of ko phangan. We met up with some canadian girls and british g...

ok so after coming from remoteness of the certain areas laos and cambodia we are now back in bangkok and i can sure feel the difference. I didnt really notice going the other way but bangkok really is a busy noisy dirty money hungry city but thats not to say you cant have a good time. On our bus from phnom phen to siem reip i had my camara stolen out of my bag while i was asleep which means that all of the photos from laos and cambodia are gone which is a real ...

SABADEE.........that means hello in laos, a happy sounding word for happy people, i dont know why they were happy than in thailand maybe because tourism hasnt been around for as long or maybe because over 85% of their country is forest but either way i think the people enjoyed our company and learning our customs as we did their's and they always smile no matter how many times chris asked to drive thier tuk tuks. I am genuanlly sad to have left a country that i'd...