After a 2 hour bus journey we arrived at the town of Ipoh or Ipod as we like to call it!! Whilst on the bus we were going the highlands and there was an amazing storm. Heavy rain, thunder and fork lighting. We got a taxi to take us to the Sun Garden Inn. Whilst checking in we met a guy from Germany called Jochen, he had come from Kuala Lumpur. We were all starving so ventured out for food and got soaked in the process as the storm had followed us. We ...

We left Penang by catching the free ferry to the mainland of Butterworth. We headed straight to the bus station and booked tickets for the next bus to Taiping pronounced "Tie-Ping" It was only an hour bus ride which was a nice change!! We decided to go here as they have a night safari and seemed to be a nice little town. The bus stopped just outside the main town so we had to get a taxi into the town. We asked him to take us to the 'Peking Hotel'. Whe...

The journey to Malaysia was HORRIBLE !!!! And then when we finally arrived it was raining (and has rained every day since!!!) I'll start from the beginning. Checked out of our hotel at 11am in Koh Tao (waited until the last minute before we HAD to leave...get our moneys worth, eh) So then we had 10 hours to wait to get on the Night Boat... We killed a bit (or a lot) of time by walking, drinking beer and adding more music to our ipods... hmm...what now? more ...

For months and months all Doms friends have gone on about is Koh Tao (Tom works there, Danny used to work there, and some other friends have visited them) "get to to Koh Tao its brilliant" ...so we had high expectations.... and Koh Tao met them ... The night bus left Bangkok at 9pm. We stopped at around 2am so everyone had been asleep for at least a couple of hours , and we were all like zombies walking down the stairs of the bus to go to the loo and ...

Got back to Bangkok yesterday afternoon. Today we checkd out at 11am as we are heading to Koh Tao tonight (but not until 9pm) We killed a bit of time exchanging our books, buying some souveners, then Dom decided after much much thinking and designing and 'ummming and aghhhing' to get his tattoo extended on his right arm. He decided with the word FEAR and had it translated into Thai. The tattoo took about 30minutes and the guy did a really good job (got a photo...