We spent a few days on Koh Phag-Ngan where we partook in the ‘Magic Reggae Boat Tour’, a long-tail boat that took us all around the island, stopping at various points like a waterfall, beaches, a coral reef. We’ll leave it to you to imagine what was on offer, but we were both very sensible, as neither of us fancied stoned snorkeling! The snorkeling was incredible, but I wouldn’t want to go diving. I’m fine being at arms reach of the ...

After the strenuous tour we went to relax on the beach for a bit and we have spent the past week on a little island in the Gulf of Thailand called Ko Samui and have just moved to the slightly smaller island of Ko Pha-Ngan. Ko Samui was great, we just sunbathed, swam, got the occasional Thai massage and we have even managed to get a bit of a tan, although we got a bit burnt so are on the factor 40 at the moment. You will all be relived to know (I definately was) t...

We left Bangkok (at 6.45am!) to go on a 3 day tour in Kanachaburi (west of Bangkok). First we stopped off at the bridge over the river Kwai and went to the war museum and the cemetary - That bridge really is very dangerous, holes everywhere! Then we took a train along the flimsy railway that actually bent as the train ran over it. That aternoon we did a treck (well more of a little walk but it felt like a treck i thet heat) along the hellfire pass that the prison...

Today we went to the Chatuchat weekend market which was HUGE! We decided after walking around for 4 hours that we had only covered about a quarter of it (a little bit bigger than Ossett market)! It was a bit too hot to fully exude the enthusiasm for shopping that we normally do as there was a lot of sweat going on and also we had to bear in mind that anything that we wanted to buy we would need to carry around with us for 4 months! I really wanted to get a 2 foot...

we're a day behind, but the internet cafe is a bit funny, so we found another for a third of the price (about 30p per hour!) which actually lets us put photos on. By the way, mum and dad, we are staying in a very nice and very cheap hotel in an area that isn't too touristy, and we're really enjoying it. Yesterday we did the temples. We had to put on lots of clothes, so we almost drowned in our own sweat, but the temples are amazing. everything is so i...