Kanchanaburi is great. We love it here. very quiet and not much night life but weve had a busy few days. We checked into a very nice guest house called The Jolly Frog ! Its so cheap and we have a lovely view of the River. On Thursday we rented out a moped and went to the JEATH War Museum (Jeath stands for the five main nationalities involved in the construction of the Burma (or Death) railway -Japan, England, Australia, Thailand & Holland -and its also...

Hi everyone Finally feeling better after having being ill (dodgy stomachs) last Thursday/Friday Really knocked it out of us , so we had to postpone the trekking til Saturday. We still made it to the boxing though on Friday night !!! We manage to eat a bit of rice before we left and got a free tuk tuk to the "stadium". We decided not to get the VIP tickets which were slightly more in price (and meant that you got to sit ring side) but we think that th...

We left Ko Samet yesterday after 5 days of sun lounging...on the mini bus back to Bangkok we got chatting to a guy called Mark. He was really helpful and gave us loads of advice. As the weather down South is a bit crap at the moment (thats where we were hoping to go) we thought we'd go to Kanachaburi but apparantly theres a festival on at the moment so you have to book in advance... Mark was heading to Chang Mai to meet up with two of his friends and we decided t...

Hello all, Here we are in Thailand finally ! Flew from Manila on Sunday night and arrived in Bangkok at about 11.30pm. (BTW we are now 7 hours ahead of you all) When we were at the airport we decided to give our families a quick call. It was really nice chatting to you all (sorry it wasnt for long - we are on a tight budget you know!) hehe Especially sorry to my mum (dina) cos i think wer got a total of 1minute to talk before my credit ran out-but we wil spe...