Well it's fair to say that we learned absolutely nothing from our Bangkok hangovers as the next week with the lads & the girls proved to be 1 of our craziest weeks yet joyous weeks of the travels thus far. As fate or good planning would have it, we all turned up on the same day from various locations. For those not in the know, the area of Chaweng, Koh Samui is lively, very very lively. It's not the most Thai place you will ever visit but sometimes who cares ...

After a couple of nights in Hat Yai, which were memorable for the fact that we'd turned up on some crazy dragon festival where they paraded a massive dragon and did some crazy dancin at nighttime followed by setting off extremely loud bangers the next morning and parading even more massive dragons through the streets; it was time to move to Penang, Malaysia for 4 nights. Now known for its street art in the old part of Penang called Georgetown, the place seems t...

"I love sleeping on a bus" - yes Stacey has just said these words to me just as I got the iPad out to update the valley fraternity on our travels since leaving Oz. We have had the pleasure of visiting a number of both manmade and natural wonders of the world yet here we are about to embark on a 7 hour bus journey to our next destination of Hat Yai in Southern Thailand and the excitement on Stacey's face of being able to recline in her seat and sleep on a bus simp...

Well the journey begins with a short stay in Bangkok. Having been here a number of times previously and having already done all the tourist stuff it made sense to do nothing but shop eat and drink, oh yeah and get massages (I've had 2, Walshy's had 3!). Throw in 1 of the cheesiest action films I've ever seen in White House Down and that's pretty much been our stay...as the title says, Hard Life! Tomorrow means Hanoi, Vietnam and that means mopeds aplenty with abo...