London - Bangkok 17-21 NovemberSo after 5 weeks back home, after multiple hospital and doctors visits, we re-started our adventure, viewing the past month as a 'pit-stop'. After waving goodbye to the parents at a Heathrow Travelodge, we boarded an A380 to Bangkok.Our second experience of Bangkok was not unlike the first - busy, noisy, smelly. This time we were only staying for a few nights and decided to visit Chatuchak Market, a labyrinth of 15,000 stalls sellin...

DAY 10 - 24 SEPT 2010 - V.I.P. BUS TO CHIANG MAIWe bid farewell to Ayuthaya and Tony's Place and boarded the V.I.P. night bus north for the 9 hour journey to Chiang Mai, Thailands second city. It turns out that in Thai, 'V.I.P. bus' translates roughly to 'big seat, we play movie, sort-of air-con'. Needless to say it wasn't the most comfortable night. Many hours later, with a whole 18 minutes of sleep under our belts we arrived, badly in need of a bed. The lesser ...

DAY 7 - 21 SEPT 2010 - WATERFALLS & SAFARI After traipsing round the travel shops searching for a one day tour of Erawan Falls and the Safari Park we were beginning to think we weren't going to be able to visit both places. Then we got lucky and were offered exactly what we wanted as a group of Israeli couples had chartered a bus and it just so happened to have two spare seats.We were warned that they are 'noisy, always late, smoke lots' but for the price an...

DAY 1 and 2 - 15/16 SEPT 2010 - MAINLY FLYING So after saying our very tearful goodbyes at the airport, and delaying the final farewell as much as possible by taking a detour to some Bagel place in the airport, we finally headed through security, with the sounds of sobbing ringing in our ears. The adventure got off to a bit of a false start as we were delayed by 90 minutes due to 'reasons pretty much unknown' (this is actually pretty much what the Ozzy pilot sai...