HiWe landed into Christchurch, New Zealand on Monday night and headed straight to our guesthouse in the outskirts of Christchurch at New Brighton.We spent the following morning looking into hiriing or buying a campervan and after many phone calls we settled on hiring a "Spaceship". It's basically a Toyota People Carrier which has been converted into a campervan and is made up of a double bed, stove, DVD Player, mini fridge and stacks of storage. The...

HiWe arrived in Krabi on Wednesday. From Kanchanaburi we returned to Bangkok and flew down to Krabi from there which took just over an hour! We're staying in Krabi at night but theres not that much to do during the day and the beaches across the water are much more inviting.On Thursday we caught a boat from Krabi to Railay and settled on Phra Nang beach which is gorgeous. The boat takes 45 mins to get to Railay which can only be reached by boat and cost 100 b...

Hi EveryoneWe arrived in Kanchanaburi on Saturday after a 3 hour bus journey from Bangkok.  We were taken from the bus station to our guesthouse by Kanchanaburis taxi service - see the photo of Andy in this hi tech vehicle!!Having phoned to book ou guesthouse that morning, when we arrived we were told that they were fully booked, i explained that we'd called this morning to make a reservation - but no, no room at the inn!!  Luckily a swedi...

Well what can we say, life doesn't get much better than this!!We arrived in Bangkok yesterday to our hotel - luxury compared to our hotel in Hong Kong!! After catching up with our jet lag we ventured into Bangkok by foot, after realising that we weren't getting anywhere and finally gave into the touts and got a Tuk Tuk, which is the most fantastice but death defying way of travelling - although andy reckons the only way to travel!!! We got across the othe...