Happy New Year everyone! Katie and I uploaded the Northern Thailand photos but forgot to write a blog, so here it is you lucky people!We arrived in Chang Mai, from Luang Prabang in Laos, after a fairly uneventful 24 hour bus journey. There was a bit of an issue at the border where we thought we were going to have to wait eight hours for our next bus, but after a bit of shouty time with the bus company we were on our way.We spent our first day in Chang Mai on the ...

So after yet another 24 hour stint by coach/mini van and long tail boat Dean and I have just arrived in North Thailand’s Chiang Mai. Our whistle stop tour through Laos was a chilled out affair that to be honest consisted of a lot of beer Lao, rope swings and a little bit of sight seeing. We arrived in Vientiane fresh from 24 hours on a sleeper bus, thankfully our journey from Hanoi was fairly smooth despite the horror stories of 32 hour long trips and horrend...

Dean and I have just arrived in Cambodia after a full on day of travelling. Getting over the boarder from Thailand was an experience in itself. After a nail biting tuk tukride we've stubbled across a nice guest house aptly named 'home sweet home' It also has free internet so we thought we'd update you on the events of last week. We ended up stay on Koh Tao for a week, the weather was pretty pants but there was loads to do so it didn't really matter. I finished m...

Dean and I have just arrived in Cambodia after a full on day of travelling. Getting over the boarder from Thailand was an experience in itself. After a nail biting tuk tukride we've stubbled across a nice guest house aptly named 'home sweet home' It also has free internet so we thought we'd update you on the events of last week. We ended up stay on Koh Tao for a week, the weather was pretty pants but there was loads to do so it didn't really matter. I finished m...

Hi all, We're now in Ko Tao and whilst Katie is doing her Open Water Diving course I thought i'd use the time to update the old Blog. Just after I updated the blog last time there was a fair bit of rain in Ko Samui which mean't the electricity kept shorting out. It kept coming on and turning off in our hotel room all night and at around three in the morning it came back on which woke us up. I then heard a massive scream from Katie as she ran across the room say...