A Tale Of Two Hobbits By Kerry Stephens We'd dreamt of travelling the world for many a long yearAnd we saved the extra pennies from three jobs to get us thereWhen we finally got the tickets it was time to tell the worldWe were off on an adventure, to see what our future held. First to Bali, with its culture, where a moped will hold four!The poverty's apparent. The effect from bombs still raw.Still, the country was a sight and we had the superb notionTo go sail...

Final words from Darren:So here I am sitting back at home & I crazily set myself the task of summing up my impressions of what I have gained as a person from my experiences of travelling. Where do I start? I already feel so emotional looking back at photos from the beginning of our journey, there's already the dreaded feeling of 'did it happen?, was it just a dream?' but I know I can honestly answer to myself & anyone who asks me those questions that ther...

So here we are, back under the cold grey skies of England & having completed a whole year away from home travelling across 9 different countries! But before we round up our blog we need to update what we got up to in those last few days:We left Pai, in a minibus back through the winding mountain roads to Chiang Mai which took four hours of the most hair raising (if I had any) driving we have yet witnessed! In Chiang Mai we then boarded a larger VIP coach for ...

Sa-wat-dii khrap! Darren and Kerry again here from Pai in Thailand in the last week of our crazy adventure. The 1st of November already! Hope you all had a good Halloween. Both of us can't believe how fast the past couple of months have gone and are both pretty scared about coming home after the experiences we have had. We've been pretty determined to have as much fun as possible though in our last week so read on and find out what we've been up to! After our la...

Hey peeps, it's Darren and Kerry here back in Thailand! Last time we were here, six weeks ago, we were both blighted with on and off illnesses. Fortunately, so far, things have been a lot better and we've been able to see some really cool things rather than being stuck in bed with fever! Since the last update we flew from Hanoi to Bangkok with Air Asia, whom we had to pay a fairly large wad of money to for our overweight luggage! Still, it was a far cheaper opt...