Hi all, Just wanted to let you know we have finally made it to Koh Samui-it seemed to take forever! The flight and the novel sleeper train went fine, but typically our bus to the ferry got a puncture and so the delay meant we missed our scheduled boat-so typical-we're starting to see a pattern emerging! So, we're here now and it seems pretty amazing. We had booked into one bungalow but we're going to change to one nearer the beach and the nightlife-we've dec...

Hi everyone! So, the photos are up and running...!Don't know how good the quality is, and yes, I haven't quite worked out how to rotate yet, but hopefully you'll get the gist! So since I last wrote we've been on our little jaunt into the Thai countryside...we rode elephants, trekked to a waterfall and then to a hillside tribal village and then went bamboo rafting along the river. It was a really good day, atlhough mine and Claire's was a little marred by ...

Hi folks, So we've made it to the north...eventually, we spent 2 hours at a service station as the tour operators scrabbled around under the bus-not very reassuring-it took over 13 hours in all! The others are not too keen to repeat the experience, especially as it will be followed by a further 10 hours down to the islands- so this is travelling?! Our hostel is pretty bog-standard, but at 90p a night you cant really complain! We've booked our trek for t...

Hi all, Sorry I\'m a bit delayed with update. To be honest, after our first exhausting day in Bangkok we kind of ran out of energy...sunbathing by the rooftop pool it was then! Well, the tanning has to begin at some point... One piece of news-on Thursday night we went to the Patpong district. For those of you who know, I needn\'t say anymore. For those of you who don\'t, all I need say are lady-boys, ping pong balls, very interesting...! Sorry to the gr...

Hi everyone! Hope the email arrived and you\'re all actually reading this-dodgy Thai computers! So, yep we\'re in Bangkok-its pretty mad and boiling. After arriving on Mon eve we just wandered from our hotel to Siam Square, had dinner and listened to the entertainment-a Thai band singing English power ballads-random. Today we decided to go sightseeing-intending to go straight to the Grand Palace we actually spent 2 hours being driven round in circles,...