"5 HOURS WAITING... ... 4 SILLY FORMS, 3 TAXI CABS, 2 PASSPORTS AND A NIGHT BUS TO KOH TAO" DAY 64: Bangkok to Koh Tao In an ideal world, today would have gone as follows: get emergency travel documents (today!) with no hassle whatsoever, and hopefully for free, then head down to the island of Koh Tao tonight for the next week or so. That was the plan anyway. We jumped in a cab to the British embassy at 8.30am which took just over an hour in the morning t...

TAKING IT 'E'ASY BY THE POOL DAY 63: Bangkok Another day to kill in Bangkok until we can do anything about our passports. Why? Because it's a bank holiday Monday in light of HM's birthday. Classic timing. Feeling left out of the Christmas excitement and seasonal weather at home, we decided to generate a bit of festive spirit ourselves. So I went to Starbucks, grabbed a venti vanilla cafe latte, a cinnamon whirl and a cranberry and a white chocolate muffin whi...

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR DAY 62: Bangkok Today is the King of Thailand's birthday. And don't we know it. They've been playing the same frikin' song outside on the loud PA system all day. Turn on the TV, same thing. And what's with everyone wearing pink? It's like gay pride, not a royal's birthday. Hope he's not reading this otherwise I won't get out of Thailand, let alone get a new passport. I'm sure he has better things to do. We started the m...

SIGH! GONE FROM VIETNAM DAY 61: Saigon, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand We said goodbye to Kelly again at breakfast and got in our taxi to our final destination, Thailand. Jen had attempted to get there twice before, but couldn't due to rioting the first time and the tsunami the second. So fingers crossed we'd be ok. It was a short flight to Bangkok and when we arrived we jumped in a cab to meet a family friend of Jen's - Bangkok Billy. Billy runs an award winni...

WATERWORLD DAY 60: Mekong Delta I knew it would be a pretty sleepless night, but when the cockerel started crowing at 3.40am it was a bit of a joke. Finally got some proper sleep about 10 minutes before we had to wake up. We had a quick breakfast on the lawn at 6am, said goodbye to our hosts, who had the most adorable toddler daughter, then made our way to the first of our boats for the day. We had to catch a small boat out in to the middle of the Mekong then...