9.30am after a decent night sleep we showered & made breakfast at Antonio's place out on the balcony, then we caught the 16 bus to Praia de Faro to see the local beach but although the skies were clear it was pretty chilly! 12pm we headed back & had a roam round town to get food from the local store then went back & made lunch at our place & had a picnic on the roof! Everywhere was deserted, it felt like we were bumping into the same people wherev...

4pm took the train from Oxford Road to the airport & then walked to T3 with a man flying to Belfast, who I chatted to along the way.5pm met Laura & checked in, couldn't get mums perfume or the go pro camera for Andy because the duty free is tiny & no cheaper anyways, but everything was on schedule & we boarded at 6.40pm no problem. We even met a lovely Portugese couple visiting family in Altrincham, Cheshire on our flight who were quick to offer u...

Koh Samui

Ao Nang: Undiscovered & untouched Thailand lies in Ao Nang. If I was to revisit, this place would fall first on my list so far. The lonely planet book isn't proving to be as useful for Thailand as is was for the east coast of Australia but without it we were pretty quick to stumble across the cheapest yet accommodation & navigate ourselves around the small town of Ao Nang without any problems. Our first day was spent playing in the waves & baking un...

Koh Phi Phi Don: Overestimations & exceedingly high expectations. Maybe that's where we went wrong. Koh Phi Phi is the place to be for crowds of English faces & buckets of alcohol destined for the beach, but it lacks in daytime atmosphere & is beyond deceiving of the picture postcards it may have once portrayed. We're unsure where our 20Bt island fee disappears to when we stumbled over the litter filled beach, dragging our bags through puddles of se...