After getting up at 6.30am we made it to the bus station with seconds to go before missing the bus to Koh Chang! It was supposed to be a nice 5 1/2 hour bus journey travelling through the east part of Thailand and it started off nicely meeting other friendly travellers. One hour into the journery however we were interrupted by a 'demon' baby. Who firstly started to cry...one hour later whilst still crying, a strange smell filled the hot and clammy bus - the sm...

We were both awake from 5.30 am - no idea why! So we took advantage of being up and went to the floating market in Taling Chang an exoerience not to be missed - we were the only westerners there. A lot nicer and cheaper than getting your shopping done at Asda anyway. After this, we headed over to the grand palace and Wat Phra Kaew. It was absolutley boiling inside the walls so we couldn't stay too long. We did want to enter the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, howe...

Started the morning bright and early and went for a walk round the area. Jet lag started to kick in though and after David got us lost we decided to head back for a half hour kip...4 hours later we realised we had missed most of the day. Feeling more awake we ventured to the riverside and bought tickets for a long tail boat to take us down the Mae Nam Chao Phraya (River). Along with several other tourists we boarded the first boat that came, not realising that...

Well, what can we say...finally made it! Didn't think it would be happen at first with our flight from Manchester being cancelled because of a crash landing down at heathrow. Which we didn't find out about until arriving at manchester airport! So after a hurried and tearful goodbye at the airport with the parents, Banny came to the rescue and raced us down the M6 in what he calls 'the Beast', but what we call 'the most frightening car journey in our life'. We ev...