Mmmm beaches . . . . mmmmm sunshine! We had not originally intended to come to Thailand but what are plans if they are not for ripping up and changing (more on that another day)!! Also, after all the exploring and fast paced moving around to date we decided that we fully deserved a holiday from all that.....holidaying! - and Thailand seemed like just the place. Having visited Bangkok and some of mainland Thailand earlier in the year we decided that we would pa...

We were a little suprised to be in Bangkok at all - even if it was only the airport!We thought that we had booked direct flights to Koh Samui, by passing Bangkok as we visited earlier in the year. On arrival at Siem Reap however we found that we were actually flying to Bangkok and changing planes to Koh Samui. The airport computers could not cope with this at Siem Reap though so they printed us two flight tickets to Bangkok and just hand wrote the onward details ...

Our arrival at Siem Reap was crazy! The Cambodians are becoming excellent at finding every little way of individually making the most that they can out of tourists. One of many fine and simple examples is that tour companies sell your name on to guest houses in your destination cities. This meant that we had a tuk tuk driver with a "Mr Graham" sign to greet us from the bus - but boy were we pleased to see him! Behind large, security controlled, gate...

Well, we think that someone was listening to the fact that Gemma was highly disappointed not to be flying to Phnom Penh because the bus was ace! Complete with stewardess, toilet, food and drink it was just like being on a plane apart from we didn't have to queue to check-in! And best of all, it didn't stop at any crappy shops and restaurants for us to by overpriced food just so we can use their pit of a toilet! So, after a very pleasant journey we arrived in Phn...

Saigon is a crazy, crazy place - mainly because of the mental amount of motorbikes there and a traffic system that reminds us of playing bulldog at school (think charging at each other and just seeing what happens)! Our arrival in Saigon was on the back of the bikes and the half hour ride to the centre of town was a mixture of a real adrenaline rush, excitement and being down right frightened - all accompanied by a deafening orchestra of horns and sirens for bac...