AYUTHYAY - 7TH OCT - 8TH OCT 2006 Booked out of our plush 18th floor pad in Bangkok where they tried to charge us for Michelle Heaton's meals and phone calls - thought OK magazine would have covered those costs!! Taxi (by meter!) to the train station, where we got in our third class carriage of a huge train that pulled into our platform. We then realised the train was getting split into two -and we were in the wrong half! Jumped off the train and ran down t...

WED 4th OCT 2006 - Penang to Bangkok (start of Team Thailand) We finally managed to communicate to the lady in the hostel that we didn't want chicken nuggets and veg for breakfast, and that tea and toast would suffice. Arrived at Penang airport to discover that, surprise surprise, our rucksacks were too heavy. We had to repack our bags in the middle of the airport - so everyone got an eyeful of our dirty washing. Successfully found Rebecca at Bangkok airpo...

SEPTEMBER 29TH 2006 - Melaka In true "winging it" style we managed to get the 9am bus to Melaka in Malaysia. Jen managed to wing it through customs following some in-depth discussion about her breakfast with the customs officer & how boring western breakfasts are compared to the curries & noodles they are used to having in the East. En-route our bus narrowly avoided killing a family of monkeys who were oh so casually trying to cross the motorway...

SEPTEMBER 26TH 2006: Arrived in Singapore late evening. Where did Tuesday go? (part of it went on Cathryn's hangover, part of it was time difference!)) Jen thankfully found Cathryn wandering around somewhere in Terminal 1 on Singapore airport. SEPTEMBER 27TH 2006: Braved the heat & humidity but resulted in mild insanity as we "forgot" to eat until about 4pm! Went on a city buzz tour of singapore but missed our stop so saw china town ...