So with 2 days left we decided to chill out and rent a dvd player, got our last minute shopping and in true backpacker style we bumped into friends that we had made along the way.. First we saw Ali and Andrew from Coral bunglows, we had a beer with Gemma and Bella before bumping into good ole Magnus and Sabina! On our last day we ran into Rosie and Dan and scrapping the barrel for our last bit of travel karma we gave them our bags we didnt need! The last supp...

Our first part of the journey was the boat to Krabi which went quite smoothly.. (which wasnt an idication for the rest of the way)... we waited for the coach to take us across the mainland but just as we were about to get on the coach us 2 and another couple got chucked into a tuk tuk with our luggage with no explanation and began a 10 minute race to a ..wait for it.. PUBLIC BUS..! oh lucky us, paying for the lovely coach service and travelling with locals. At le...

So we arrived back in Bangkok to have our final dinner with the group... The next day we said goodbye to nearly everyone?! some of them we were really upset to leave and some to be honest glad to! but such as life! teehee Booked our overnight bus and boat to Koh Phi Phi (our 2nd Thai island) and off we went. Made a couple of new buddies on our journey..one a guy named Matt who was a dive instructor and had been working around Thailand for 5 yrs or so. The othe...

So we arrived in Chiang Mai around 8am the next day and headed straight for breakfast. We had both decided we would like to go to a cookery school to learn how to cook Traditional Thai food! We know...slightly odd choice for us but we were very excited! So we rushed to the guesthouse had a quick shower and got dropped off at the local market. This is where we met the rest of our group and our cook 'Bong'. We all had a little basket each and we wandered around the...

So we check into The Grande Ville Hotel near China Town which is where we were meeting our group... lovely hotel! The next morning we had breakfast early and went exploring..we had a few things to pick up before starting our month tour...including malaria tablets, rucksacks as there was no way we were carrying our huge ones on and off tiny asian boats! and appropriate clothing! So the whole day was spent shopping and we came back just in time for a quick nap befo...