As we left Koh Phangan a massive rain storm had just rolled in soaking us, we got on the boat and hoped it wouldn't make the ferry crossing too rocky. It wasn't and we got back onto the mainland within three hours only to be greeted by the sideways rain. We headed towards two coaches parked up near the ferry and hoped one of them was ours. Nope, our coach was 20 metres to the right of the others! Only another 60 seconds away but we still got soaked, even ...

Family time! Whoop! So after all night on a bus from Miri, Tom and I were incredibly relieved to arrive at our hotel come 10am. My Mum, Dad and brother weren't arriving until the evening so we had until then to have a nap (as you never really sleep properly sat bolt upright on a bus), explore our hotel, find a nice place for lunch, go for a bit of a walk around to scope out the area and then later excitedly await their arrival.  They finally arrived at 9:15...

We knew we had to get to Miri in order to catch a bus to Kuching where we would be meeting Hannah's family. We'd literally been talking about this day pretty much from the day we first arrived in India so it was quite strange for it to be so close now. We had two choices to get there; get a boat for two hours to Brunei and then a bus to Miri for five hours or get a plane for 45 minutes. As it wasn't much more expensive and a million times more conveni...