Koh Tao is mainly a diving island but it has fairly decent nightlife and beaches too, and is so much more chilled out than its bigger sister. We stayed in a dorm that had a TV in the common room, which turned out to be a massive plus seeing as we spent most nights watching films, wild! Heather, Jasmine and Layla all got ill/infected ears then Amber and Jasmine started their diving course so we only really went out once, to some weird club that played a combinat...

Soooo the boat over to Koh Phangan was pretty fun, me and two girls from the bus called Jessie and Alisha as well as a guy called Cameron got a few beers in, which made the fact that we were being slowly cooked alive a bit more bearable! Jessie was a fire hula hooper which would have been cool to see on the beach but I never saw her again. Cameron was going to be wearing a Go-Pro camera on his head and videoing the whole of full moon night, and I did actually b...

So I've been pretty much failing at life for the last few days, been too ill and dehydrated to make any decisions about anything more complicated than getting out of bed and generally been wandering around like a zombie. This has somehow ended up with me back in Chiang Mai on my own when all the people I know are going to Laos. I think my reasoning was that I wanted to buy a netbook somewhere but really I should have just stayed in Pai, it's horrible being back s...

So the last few days have been a combination of pure amazingness and really horrifying! I've had food poisoning for the last few days which meant being so dehydrated yesterday that I felt like I was underwater all day and everyone was really far away, and ended up in me projectile vomiting all over a bus and some thai woman. Good times. Pretty funny in hindsight but the bus driver didn't even pull over and I was left sitting there for half an hour covered in sick...

Ah I love Chiang Mai, it feels like I've been here forever even though it's only been... 4 days?! There's so much to do here I keep adding days, sorry south islands, you can wait. Soo I got here with the night train which had a really comfy bed so I fel asleep by 7pm, woke up at 2am and couldn't go back to sleep till about 6am, just lying in my little yellow curtained cubicle listening to the train, felt like I was going a bit mad. But eventually got there a few...