After 14 months exploring the wonderful country of New Zealand, sampling the Kiwi way of life, hospitality (& wine) and meeting the weird & wonderful wildlife, and a further 2 months immersed in the stimulating, colourful, exhilarating and at times exhausting countries of SE Asia, our journey ends in North Wales, on a relaxing week's holiday with Mum & Dad, designed to allow us time to catch up on the last 16 months and recover from, er, our 16 month ...

Hello everybody! We're home again! In fact we've now been back for over a week but we're both still next to useless (well I am - Su's heading in the right direction since reclaiming control of the kitchen!) In theory we shouldn't have felt any worse than we did after the flight from Auckland to Bangkok, same length of flight, same time difference, but in reality we seemed to just stop and were unable to kick-start ourselves again. I guess it's because when we arr...

Hello everybody! Well, here we are. 16 months after we kissed our family & friends goodbye and jumped aboard that Jumbo to Auckland, NZ, and it's finally time to go home. What an incredibly strange feeling - we've been talking about it for ages and the last fortnight really has been a case of counting down the hours, but it still seems slightly unreal. We've spent the last few days in Bangkok, but before I fill you in on the details I will just backtrack and...

Hello everybody! Well, to be honest there isn't a huge amount to report since the last blog because as soon as we came to our senses and realized that we had picked a pretty darn perfect beach and lovely accommodation, we settled right down and adopted our old Cherating routine of eat-beach-eat-beach-eat-sleep. We have made a few minor adaptations to this rather hectic schedule. Our bungalow has a fridge so our breakfast is a much healthier yoghurt, fruit and jui...

Hello everybody! Well, we've made it back to Thailand but it was a bit of a trek and not entirely without incident, as you shall see! We caught the Transnasional (government) bus from Cherating to Kota Bharu, once again the only travellers on a bus full of locals, which we've found an interesting way to travel - a slice of real life. These buses are quite good, only 22 seats which are comfortable and recline a decent way. Of course they don't have toilets on boa...