"It's the final countdown dadadadaaaDAdadadaDA...." I can't believe today is our last day in Bangkok! Six months - woooooooosh - gone. Tomorrow we'll be hopping on a plane, drinking as many free beverages as we can (is champagne free?), and stepping out onto English soil the following morning. It doesn't quite seem real...As always we've been to loads of places since I last updated this blog so I'll do a quick catch up. We went from Hat Yai (where I las...

Five months ago today we were arriving in Nairobi ready to embark on our African adventure as white, pasty, clean and naive foreigners with no idea what the following weeks and months would bring. Today we arrived in Thailand, the last country on our round the world trip, as brown, grubby, experienced travellers for whom using squat toilets, making friends with mice and cockroaches, and bartering for food come second nature. I'd be lying if I said the past few mo...

Om swastyastu! ('hello' in Balinese apparantly... I had to look it up on the internet though, as all the people here ever seem to say to us is 'yes, english girl, buy buy, I do cheap price, transport?' regardless of the time of day and whether I'm smiling or pretending to be deaf!). Ah, the joys of leaving Australia and arriving in Asia... Only joking, Bali has actually been awesome so far - largely due to the relentless heat (which we love) and the fact that eve...