So...it's definately possible to get sunburn and have slight sunstroke without there even being any hint of sun. I fealt absolutely ill on the morning we set off for Phi Phi on the worst boat journey of my life. The rain was torrential, the wind was howling like god knows what and the waves were up there with those from "The Wavey Beach" in Ibiza!! Great. I half slept but thankfully the journey was over before I knew it. It fealt like the whole world had landed ...

5:30am..."WAKE UP, WAKE UP!!" Barely awake I open my eyes to find an overly enthusiastic, overly loud Thai man making his way down the carriage. We are told to leave the train and catch a bus (pretty sure that WASN'T in the small print) which will take us on the remainder of our journey to Krabi. Great. Does this man know I haven't slept properly for probably 3 weeks now!! By 9:30am we had arrived, opting to stay a short distance from the centre of Ao Nang in a ...

Leaving Vietnam was apparantly not as easy as first though. Instead of enduing another hellish expensive bus journey we had oped to fly back to Bangkok and with the airport over an hour away we faced an early start. Already learning that pretty much the whole of S.E. Asia has its own concept of time we booked a taxi far earlier than needed....which was, suprise suprise LATE!! A late taxi taxi combined with early morning rush hour traffic = checking in for our fli...

After a month in S.E. Asia dodging many a tuk tuk, car, scooter and feeling like you're in an episode of wacky races, we had not yet witnessed one accident...until now. A scooter and a bike collided as we sat waiting for yet another coach. Most suprising thing though that after giving the scooter driver a clip around the ear and a stern word or two, the elderly lady who had moments earlier been catapulted from her bike, began crawling into the centre of the r...

Moments before 6:30am the anticipatioin of the pending alarm buzzer had already filled me with dread. A 24hour bus journey to Hoi An was looming and given our past experiences was it any wonder!? The journey was slow, hot and tiresom. By 7pm we reached Nah Trang but with only a 30minute rest break there was barely time to leave the coach. Although we did leave the coach, for the nearest posh hotel to take advantage of their facilities and free hand cream! By ...