As I write this I am chilling in the gardens of our hostel in chiang mai. The DeeJai backpackers are our hosts for the next few nights and I have to say I love it here, the rooms are comfortable and there is a great social feel to the hostel along with a fantastic owner. He is actually English but has lived in Thailand for years and.... Wait for it.... He's been to guernsey (he claims to love it there). Our trip here consisted of a very sketchy coach journey. O...

Today was our first full day in Bangkok and a busy day it's been. Started off leisurely with some smiley toast breakfast before I facetimed with Jed. Was lovely to catch up with him and his NZ lifestyle. Shopping was on the cards today as there was a few necessities that need to be bought. We ventured out into the humidity and walked about 5 minutes before hailing down a tuk tuk. The tuk tuk... Well, that was an experience and a half. Darting through traffic wit...

When planning a trip as exciting as this, it's easy to only think of the fun exciting parts, easily letting them gloss over the inevitable upsets and stresses. Today has been one of those days. It was a bright and early rise for an early breakfast before we headed off to the floating markets. They were quite a sight, however I did expect then to be more traditional. It seems so far that an awful lot of Thailand had been commercialised for tourists, in fact some...

My tolerance for long flights is fading already! Our flight today consisted of loud drunks, crying babies and stroppy air hostesses. That aside, we arrived in Bangkok with relative ease and took a taxi to out hostel. The taxi came to a total of £6! It's costs me double that to get from town to home in guernsey and this was easily twice the distance. After settling into our room we headed out I search of Khoa San road and food... What we found was bit Khoa San r...

Back in London tonight, much in need of sleep! The past two days have been a bit of a jumble of chilling, yoga, surfing, packing and travelling. Silly moment yesterday afternoon! Laura and I decided to be organised and get some washing done (by hand), this meant finding the means to dry our clothes. The rain had cleared away by this point so we hung the clothes around the windows and opened them up for the sun and wind to work their magic. Laura cleverly removed...