Hi everyone, I am in Auckland now....until tomorrow. I arrived here at the hostel about 1am this morning, and done a bit of a whistle-stop tour of Auckland before leaving tomorrow. I have been so lucky with the weather today...apparently they have had rubbish weather recently, with loads of rain etc, but today i had beautful sunshine and blue skies...sweet as!!! I decided to make the most of the sunshine and had a Harbour boat tour this afternoon, and it was...

Hi, I'm actually in Auckland now, but I didn't get a chance to right this when I was in Singapore. I just had one and a half days in Singapore, so I had to cram in quite a lot of sightseeing into a short space of time. I arrived in Singapore mid afternoon, and just dumped my bags at the hostel and went out for a wander round the city. I made my way down Orchard Road and then onto the harbour. The thing that is probably most noticable about Singapore is how ...

Hmmm...I'm trying to remember what I have done since my last blog...a lot happens in a week when you are travelling, so I'm struggling a bit!!! In my last blog I had just got back to Bangkok for a couple of days before coming to Bali....oh yeah, I had booked myself into one of the broom cupboards (aka single room) at the Wild Orchid Guest House...and for my last days in Bangkok I thought I would try to find something different to do other than the usual shoppin...

I am actually back in Bangkok now, but seeing as I was losing the will to live when I tried to go on the internet in Cambodia, I thought I would wait until I was back here to update my blog!! I think when I last wrote I ws just about to go on the hilltribe trek. That was a great couple of days up in Chiang Mai. We were really lucky with the weather as they it was still the end of the monsoon season, but we only had a light shower on one of days. It was beaut...

Hi everyone, I'm in Chiang Mai in Northen Thailand at the mo. I travelled north on the overnight train on Friday, and what should have been a 13 hour journey turned into a 17 hour train journey...i'm not sure what happened, we left Bangkok on time, but somehow the train was delayed for 4 hours along the way!!! When we asked the guards why we were late they just smiled and nervously laughing said "yes, we are late"...yeah, that was really helpful! B...