Well, I wish I had read the following paragraph before I decided to book myself a hostel slap bang in the middle of the Patong strip! It was an experience to say the least... 'There's well over 100 bars here -- most of them of the sleazy 'girlie bar' variety with flamboyantly costumed bar girls (and some, technically, bar boys) -- and a few clubs offering more, uhm... err..."intimate" performances'..... ... Not exactly what I had had in mind when I bo...

I heard a number of things about Bangkok before I arrived: that it's a dump and smells like a dead cat, that the men are dodgy and that everyone tries to scam you especially taxi drivers. All of the above were proved true within a couple of hours of arriving...getting followed back to my hotel by a 'fashion designer' (yeah right) being ripped off in shops and then having the experience topped off with a taxi driver trying to get me arrested (she tried to over ch...

Well...it has been a dramatic few days to say the least!! So much to say..I will try not to ramble.. Ok, so I am now in Bangkok (Thailand) but hav spent the past three days in Singapore. Luckily before we left Charlotte and I booked ourselves on quite a few trips so I was kept really busy and didn't really have time to worry about being alone. On the first morning a car came to pick me up from the hostel and took me to the meeting point for a city tour. This ba...