6.30am came too soon and we got up weary eyed and grouchy. We got ready (didn't shower as the bathroom was a bit gross) and went to the garage-turned restaurant for breakfast. We'd all slept really well, but could do with another 3 hours or so. We had banana pancakes (more like massive crumpets) and Edd had a sandwich. We made our way down do the pier and bought snacks on the way. We were told the boat was leaving at 8am so were there at 7.45am to get good seats....

We woke up to torrential rain. I hadn't slept very well and had spent the hour before we got up, mentally preparing for 3 days of getting rained on. I wasn’t looking forward to trekking in the jungle as it was, doing it wet even less so. If we were staying in overnight lodgings with hot water and electricity, I’d have been okay. Getting rained on all day, to arrive in a tree house with no way of getting dry or warm, was not my idea of a good time....

We sat at the coffee shop in front of our guest house at 10am; we were being picked up between 10am and 10.30am and decided to people watch while we wait. The mini bus was late and Edd asked reception to call to find out where they were. 10.45am they arrived and we clambered into the mini bus and prepared for the 3-hour journey to the border.We stopped just over an hour later to have lunch in an overpriced restaurant that served 3 things: Pad Thai, chicken and ri...

The usual haze had lifted, exposing clear blue skies. In England, this meant it was going to be a very cold day. As it turned out, in Thailand it meant the exact opposite... If we thought we'd experienced unbearable heat, today was going to take it to a whole new level.I Skyped with my mom while Edd took our washing down the road. He also went in search of food and bus tickets to Loas for the next day. He returned an hour later to me still Skying with my mom,...

We woke up relatively early, but stayed in bed and had a lazy morning. We had to decide what to do for the day and I announced I wanted to go to Catmosphere Cat Cafe. It was a 3.4km walk from where we were, on the same road as the shopping centre from the day before. I needed a new charging wire for my phone as my old one's plastic had come off and all the silver wires inside were exposed, so it was 2 birds with 1 stone.It took us an hour to get to the cat ca...