Another six hour journey and we arrived at our hotel. As we were on a budget we had booked in to a cheap hotel and it was awful. Full of scum bags. As we were tired from the journey and had already paid for the night we stayed and looked for a better hotel the next day. I got my tablet out to check for emails and noticed a big chunk had come off one of the corners. I had loaned it to Jonnie while we were having breakfast at Korat as I had to run off to the lo...

Jonnie had always wanted to travel to the East but we had never done it. Apparently it was just a few hours on the train, and because it was where all the locals lived everything would be dirt cheap......... So after two hours on the train and still in Bangkok a British man sat near us said that this was unusual. We could only get third class which is basically a wooden bench. In fact ours had a nail sticking out and we both managed to rip our trousers on it....

I felt like kissing the tarmac as I arrived in Thailand. Jonnie arrived the next day and we had a steady night out as we had sworn never to have a repeat of our last first night there where we had gone mental and managed to blow about four hundred quid between us. Jonnie had never been to koh Samui so I suggested we went. It's really easy I said based on my last trip there, we get an overnight sleeper train and then a quick bus ride, an hour on the boat and ...

More Reggie Perrin than Michael Hutchence. Krabi, Ao Nang, and bye bye thailand 19- 25th may So i said farewell to my trusty steed, and as i handed over the keys and told them the brakes did not work they started laughing, and then did a mini re enactment of me crashing and then laughed some more and put it straight back in to stock. Not much different to when a product had come back from repair i suppose ha ha. The coach to Krabi was...

Operation Koh SamuiMay 12-19In order to get from Laos in to Thailand overland, i had to first get to the capital city of Laos, Vientiane.As bus journeys went, this was a breeze at around 5 hrs. i had booked on the "VIP" bus.Travelling over here, you learn that VIPcould mean anything. I don't think they have ever heard of trading standards, and would either laugh at you or shoot you if complained about anything in an attempt to compare it to what we are ...