After a flight back from Vietnam as a loner, i spent a night back home at the D&D. I caught an overnight coach and boat sitting next to a very well spoken young lad called Rupert we chatted all night much to the anoyance of the rest of the coach who were trying to sleep! ( i bumpeed in to Rupert at the full moon party which was funny as he was off his face!). I finnaly arrived in Koh pha ngan to meet the others (not Adele and Steve they were on Koh Samui). Mi...

Just had our first day on Kho Phi Phi. it really is a mini paradise, zero cars on the whole island.wierd. well done. the effects of the Tsunami in 2004 are still very much present. it is truely touching seeing the remainds of homes and buildings and watching the huge efforts by all STILL to rebuild and re-capture the life of this beautiful little island. about 70% of the island was effected and over 2000 people died,which when you see how little this place is,...

Hi all. it has been left to me to write the Blog for Ko Samui and the rest of the 3 week island tour which myself (nick) Laura, Mike,Adele,Steve and Faye (for the final 2 weeks) are about to begin. we Adele and Steve (Borat voice) have flown direct to Samui and Me Mike and Laura are getting on a 12 hour coach journey and a ferry crossing tonight and tomorrow morning to meet them. we have decided that if we carry on spending at the current rate we will be back for...

Now then now then, it has been a pretty amazing 2 days. I'll save the mega details for later, but here are a few for now. The seven of us are pretty shattered. We have just finished a trek in the mountains of Northern Thailand, near Chiang Mai. The "tour" included a night in a tiny and remote village, white water rafting and also a ride on an elephant. But, you'll all be glad to know, we looked at the elephants and decided they were looking pretty unhap...

Now then again! None of the other 6 seem to care too much about the blog bit, especially Nick, who seems to simply want to hammer me as much as possible on the message board. So I'm going again. We have a trip to the hilly areas of Northern Thailand to come in the next week, and I will post a load of pictures next week sometime. I have some sweet ones of Bangkok, but I'll wait for a bit. So anyway, life is bizarre out here, especially considering the fact that ...