The trip down south didn't start off well, felt sick throught the plane, bus & boat journey from Bangkok to Surat Thani and onto Koh Samui but tried to sleep it off along the way. Met up with Hans in the evening and we picked up were had left off in Nepal, great to catch up and exchange stories about the last 3 months which have flown by! Sunday morning woke up to thunderstorms, tremendous! They did ease off eventually & went off exploring on Hans' scoo...

We took it easy after the epico bus journeys the previous day, after a very hearty brunch we headed off to Angkor Wat with great anticipation in the sweltering afternoon heat. We went straight for the biggie and it didn't disappoint, Angkor Wat is immense. We spent a few hours there then headed to the top of the hill for the sunset. What initially started as a relaxed state of being soon turned into irritation overdrive, droves of Asian tourists rudely went u...

First day back at Bangkok just relaxed and caught up with old and new friends. In the morning went across town to book sleeper train ticket to Chiang Mai then had a right good nostalgic youtube session playing lots of classico choons. Train up north was fun, met a Dutch brother and sister travelling together and they had arrived from Schipol earlier in the day, plenty of duty free booze spirits were drank until we realised that everyone else in the train had ...

(this blog was from 3 weeks ago but couldn't upload it at the time) Saying goodbye, sorry au revoir, to my beautiful butterfly was real tough at Hong Kong airport. Made the next four hours or so real long waiting to board the superjumbo. Had previously read an article in Daily Mail that all A380's should be grounded due to a microscopic crack in wings.. what a load of tosh! Smoothest bird/beast I've ever flown on, loved it!! Arrived in Bangkok and it was dou...