Just in case you were wondering by the way, that couple are "now stronger than ever" a mere two days after he abandoned her in a pub to go off with two Thai girls. Reluctantly abandoning that drama we headed on board a boat for the mainland and a bus to Krabi on the other side of Thailand. Bit of a long journey and the company that arranged it all seemed to conspire to make us miss our connection to Krabiand it looked a bit grim for a moment, with the...

So having not spent as much time as we'd planned in Ko Tao we decided to head to Samui to see what it was like. It's a place we had planned on missing due to it being too touristy and 'package holiday' for hardy travellers like ourselves, but hey ho, it was time to see how the other half lived. And it was interesting. Samui is very touristy, it's a bit like heading to Tenerife - English pubs and restaurants abound and there is hardly anything of Thailand here ex...

There was a bit more fun to be had in PhaNgan before we moved onto a different island as we headed into Hat Rin, home of the Full Moon Party. However with the full moon over two weeks away there wasn't that much going on and the place didn't really look like the modern day Soddom & Gomorrah that we were expecting. The beach was nice although probably not as nice as the one in Haat Yao (although it was cloudy so was difficult to judge). The town was a bit seed...

"Forgive us Father it's been five weeks since our last beach." "Dear God, you'd better get down there you pasty faced Englanders" "Oh alright you twisted our arms." Flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. Three hour wait in the airport. Flight from Bangkok to Surat Thani. Four hour wait at ferry port. Two and a half hours boat journey. Done. It's not all cheap beer and skittles this travelling lark you know! It was about 10.30pm ...

We hadn't even really planned to go to Chiang Rai until we met that bloke on the Laos trip, but we're glad we did. Chiang Rai is in the far north of Thailand a few hours north of it's more famous almsot namesake, Chiang Mai. Unfortunately the latter has gotten itself too touristy in recent years, in fact it was touristy when I was there all those years ago, and according to the books Chiang Rai is where those wanting a more authentic experience go. We got a publ...