Hello to you all, Am nearly at the end of my New Zealand leg of the trip now so will try and recap all that i have been up to in the last 4 weeks. After our journey down from Christchurch to Queenstown (with a stop over in Cromwell freezing in the car) I had to ring around town to see where i could get a nights accomodation as it was the winter festival there, so most places were fully booked. Over the next few days i tried to acclimatise to the cold weather all ...

Rightgot a bit of time spared now so hopefullywillbe able to update the blog and at least finish the asia section of my trip! Sam and I had planned to go to the Water park in Melaka on our last day there but we were kept awake all night by the loudest thunder storm ive ever heard and it was still grey and wet in the morning so we decided to head down to singapore a day earlier. The bus journey across the border was relatively pain free and the hardest part of t...

Hello all, am now in cold and wet new zealand waiting for the skies to clear so i can do a skydive!! But that will have to wait a while to make it on the blog as have got a bit of catching up to do. From Langkawi Sam and I headed off to Penang where we go gorged ourselves on lots of delicious curries. During most meals we both managed to comsume our body weight in curries as we enjoyed them so much! Walking around Little India was really good aswell as the smel...

Hello All, it has been a pretty hectic couple of weeks since i last updated so have apologies for the delay in this update. On my first night in Bangkok i met up with Sam and Tess who Sam was travelling with and we went out for a drink and planned the next days activities. This ended up consisting of lots of shopping in the huge Bangkok weekend market. I bailed out early though and had a bit of a stroll around the park nearby then got the sky train and then a b...

So I hvae now been in Thailand for about 2 weeks and have had a really good time so far. The slow boat trip from Laos was a lot better than i expected as the boat was very quiet and the weather ended up being pretty good for most of the trip. I managed to read 2 books in 2 days we were on the boat, catch up on a bit of sleep and also just watch the beautiful countryside go by. The actual border crossing into Thailand was very simple and the only dissapointment wa...