After all my travelling I was feeling shattered so decided I needed some chill out time in Thailand. I had never visited the west coast and saw this as my perfect opportunity to go and explore and meet up with Kate again who I met earlier on my travels. I flew to Phuket and after a couple of hours delay finally reached the airport where Kate was waiting for me. We had a transfer also waiting to take us to our hotel at Karon Beach. We arrived very late so headed ...

After getting off our overnight bus (which actually was not too bad as it had reclining, heated massage seats), we were taken by private bus to a local cafe where we had breakfast before being driven to the ferry port of Surat Thani. It was a 2 hour boat journey before we finally reached Koh Samui. As there is an odd number of girls I have been getting my own room, which is a nice change, so I was able to spread out, and as we are here for a few days I dont have ...

The overnight train from Chaing Mai to Bangkok was surprisingly comfy and spacious and even had its own party cabin! I woke early and opened the curtain to see brick ruins covered in monkeys. I recognised it and realised that I had seen this on 'An Idiot Abroad' when Carl came to Thailand and visited Lapburi, this also meant we were delayed as this was about 3 1/2 hours from Bangkok. After arriving in Bangkok Amy and I headed to the Food Loft (one of my favourit...

We left hotel in our Luang Prabang early and headed for the river to get on our boat which would take us down the Mekong, to the Thai border over the next couple of days. As our group was now so small we had so much room on the boat so were able to spread out. The scenery was lovely and I ended up sitting on the boat, taking it all in and watching the world go by, including spotting both brown and pink water buffalo along the side of the Mekong and a group of mon...

After a weekend of lots of tears and goodbyes (and leaving drinks with all my lovely friends) I was finally ready to leave, once I had sorted out my packing. I had limited myself to what I thought were my essential items and even Mum could not suggest what to take out, so after taking a items of clothing out and my laptop, I decided that I could not take anything more out and I would have to put up with the weight. The tears started when I said goodbye to my bro...