And we thought tht Phangan was paradise . . .well Koh Tao is! . . . . and this time above and below the water! Koh Tao is a tiny island, far less built up that the others and covered in huge palm trees, beautiful rock formations and white sandy beaches. In fact, the scenery is so perfect that it almost seemed staged or landscaped. One result of being undeveloped is the worst roads we have seen yet. The bumpy dirt tracks around the island mean that "taxi's&...

In Koh Phangan we did . . . nothing! Honestly, literally, completely b***** all! We arrived on the catamaran and hopped in a truck and found ourselves in complete paradise. Sweet little bungalow, steps from a beach with nothing on it apart from palm trees (which, incidentally, you can't sit under in case a nut falls on your nut and makes a fatality out of you!) and a bar with cold beer. So we arrived in this perfect place and didn't leave for 3 days, did nothin...

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 ...