hey guys, sorry we missed you, we are in koh tao now for the next few days then on to koh pha ngan. The beach you want to be at is called Phra Ae Beach, its the long one and if your looking to just chill out in koh lanta, thats the place to be. Also they do a decent fry up at the brit cafe just off ther,incase your missing your home delights. We stayed at the sunny lanta guesthouse, which is like bungalows. You can get a decent room there for 700baht a night and a less decent, but still alright(ish) room for between 400-500baht. hope you guys are okay. Tell us what your planned schedule is and we will sort out meeting up.

just a quickie for you gaz...what was that RAG bungee jump @ the plough like os i've put my name down for next month...is it worth it? off to the quiz now and tryin to keep our good name intatc (which is increasingly diff without gaz 'one answer' upton, but we're tryi n to replace ya with rich! ta-rah x

Hi Gareth and Kym, lots of snow here and suffering all week with a chest infection. To add to my woes Sky went down mid week. Anyway everything has improved today!

Alright Gaz and kym, I know you said you were gonna be in Bangkok around the 10th so if your heading South at all me and nick are gonna be in koh tao, then onto Koh pha ngan for half moon party and should either be in Koh pha Ngan on 18th/19th or coming back up through bangkok. If you wanna update us on facebook or on our msgboard then we can sort out meeting up if you fancy it still?

Micky- Don't believe her!Accident my arse! Was hilarious tho! Greg- keep it shush mate.she's bought it so far! Disco- its a hard life!on holiday again!congrats on the job front! ill google em when i get a minute.the name sounds familiar.send our love to alex Bayley or shud i say Diggers- we love u too! Marky- bummer.wud have been class to meet up. u out there on hol?mates? Alexis-Interflora these days!cant trust em!who told u bout the arsenal score cos there is no way u knew it was even bein played xxx

Glasgow - my aggressive streak did get a little worse when i "accidentally" barged a man over in the street. I said excuse me n he made a lame attempt at movin so i squeezed meself thru n he ended up on the floor somehow. Really wasn't intentional! LK - congrats on the bookin tickets, will send u a lengthy email RE: travellin asia as asked when i have a little more time (later in the week def). Ul love it - reckon it ll top Europe hands down Apes - u shud def grace vietnam with ur presence! its my fave place so far.loved it - will def go back in future. RE the lancashire cup - who gives a f***! lol - we're not part of it anymore - we left uni in june - get with the programme ;) Watch out playin rugby - we dont want ur face rearrangin now do we???? keep safe misses Kielz - u know the crack, let us no wots wot when u do n i can sort stuff :) Re lancs - did u ever think it wud be the same without us 2 - are u delusional!

Im glad that you are taking steps to embrace the culture along the way. Sounds like Gaz particularly is getting on well with the locals! Kym, sounds like you could be doing a better job, I dont hear about Gaz getting pushed off any boats? I know there's a language barrier but I really think someone should've warned the bloke that this would be a bad idea, especially after uv been learning to shoot AK47s in your spare time. On a brighter note, all my coursework has been sorted so I've got a week of playing football manager and drinking to attend to before term starts. Who needs all this culture crap?? xx

you showign morals...yeah whatever! what i think happened is that after the 2nd time of saying no, you stayed and created this mini story of leaving to save some dignity and protect kym from the mean boyfriend you have become!!!

Sounds like your both still havin an amazing time, some of the things ur doing sound fab. Your going to come back v.cultural, u wont cope back in cold, rainy england. Me n Dave just booked our tickets to Oz!! Going KL and round Asia for 6 weeks (gonna hav to cram it all in) and then goin Oz think its around the 16th May....u guys still there then?? We going for 7 weeks. We thinking of doing the 'Oz Experience' from Melb-Cairns, do u guys know much about these things??? Take care n keep having qual time, xxxxxxxx

Hey up you two! Hope all is going well still. V jealous of the whole Viet Nam business- defo on my wish list. Just a gloaty message to say that the Lancashire Cup took place yesterday between UCLan and Lancaster.....and UCLan won. We kicked ur asses!!! Know u probs arent bothered, but i thought i'd keep u up to date with ur uni news. I'm picking up rugby next week for a team called Grasshoppers (like thats gonna strike fear into our opponents!) I've told em, the first black eye i get will signal the end of my career! Masters going well- theyr trying to make me do a PhD- foooools. You picked up any new languages yet?! Missin ya Apes xx

gentlefolk once again i've just gotten back from the bookies and forgotten to put your bet on my good friend! oh well, at 2-1 on the winnings arent gonna be much (or are they, i'm fairly inempt when it comes to that sort of thing. 'that sort of thing' being numbers!). and on that note i am very pleased to announce the expected arrival of....a job working for northern rock (i guess thats working with numbers, oh well!) so really looking forward to that. start on the 19th feb and much to mark and rich's constenation i have pulled out last minute from seeing them on the weekend of the 11th coz i'm going on an all expenses paid holiday to gran canaria for a week! woohoo! a break from...umm..doing not that much. hope you guys are well bit of love coming your way, lol Davo disco yo

I love you both so much and miss you so much. Just take care of yourselves ok. I cannot wait for you to get back.