Edd set his phone alarm for 6.30am on Thursday morning as we were being fetched at 7.30 for a morning of floating markets. We awoke to the somewhat loud chirping of what we thought were local birds and I wondered why they only seemed to have one tune - this was quite a change from Bangkok as we hadn't really seen any birds there, apart from the odd pigeon. We were still in bed when we heard a knock at the door… It was our driver. It was 7.30. Our alarm had not ...

Wednesday found us waking up at 10.30am and getting ready for the long trek to Kanchanaburi. We were glad to be getting out of the hustle and bustle of Bangkok; we were looking for a more authentic Thailand and this city was far too westernized. You get the feeling that it relies on tourists for income, and their scams prove it. People come to Asia to do Eastern soul searching, find things out about themselves they never knew, the meaning of life - the meaning of...

Tuesday morning we woke up at about 10am. We knew we only had to check out at 12pm so decided to nap another hour. This was a bad idea. We woke up at 11.50am, still needed to shower and pack our lives back into our bags. My stuff seems to catapult itself all over the room every time I open my bag, so this was going to be a true test of ability. 20 minutes later we were checking out and looking for alternative accommodation as we'd only booked 1 night. (Test level...

Well it took us 1.5 hours to get through the impressive queue at customs. Said queue did not get shorter, more planes landed and the queue remained consistently long; we were glad to get out of it and fetch our bags. We caught a train to Phaya Thai in Bangkok and immediately started a conversation with a family from Denmark, who commented on the fact that we were all wearing Solomon shoes. They were here for 4 weeks with their daughter, who looked about 8, and th...

The last week or so has been decidedly eventful. We both have all of our visas. (YAY!) I had to go for a chest X-ray before Australia would grant me a working holiday visa. (I'm not sick or dying, good to know). We have a shipping company that is moving our stuff to Aus for us - they arrive next Thursday. We've already *trial* packed our bags to see how much stuff we can take (or rather, can't take), started collating things in a room downstairs, list...