Hi everybody, I think it's going to be a struggle to try and remember everything I wanted to tell you all about since my last post, but I'll try. There's been so many things that I've seen or experienced but I've been pretty poor at writing them in my journal so I'll probably forget about half of them when writing this. The train back from Ayutthaya to Bangkok was quite an exerperience. I would have been hanging out the carriage, holding onto the bars, if two ...

The past couple of weeks have been quite eventful. I never made it to Vang Vieng as, since I still wasn't feeling right, I thought it was probably a good idea to go and get myself checked out somewhere that had good medical facilities...the closest place to Luang Prabang being Bangkok! So I got on a last minute flight (which was spent with the provided sick bag poised in position...just in case) and checked myself into a nice little place near Siam Sq in Bangkok ...

Hi everybody... It's been an eventful few days, or not really as I have been bed-ridden for most of it. After going out on Sunday night (to a bowling alley just outside of town as there's a curfew of 11:30pm inside the town) I woke up the next day missing my handbag and feeling awful. I spent the rest of the day in bed getting progressively sicker and the next day, felt slightly better before feeling worse again towards the end of the day. Even today I'm still f...

Sabai dee, After 3 months in Thailand, I've fianlly moved on to another country, and have some brand spanking new stamps in my passport that I'm very proud of. Even though I'm still on the doorstep of Thailand (I can still see it just across the Mekong river), Laos already feels quite different. First of all, I can't get my head around the money situation, there are pretty much 3 currencies used in Laos. The kip is the official currency, but you cannot buy ...

Ok, well I've just arrived in Pai and I still can't put my photos on! I hope it's not my camera. I think it's the spywear programmes certain places have that blocks it. Anyway, I shall continue with my account of the trek.... The 3rd day we had a nice lie in (although it was hard with the cockrels crowing and the dogs barking and all the other noises that sound as if they're coming from within the room) before setting off on the final downhill part of our jour...