We were kinda sad as we boarded our last ever bus to Bangkok - but as soon as we started to sweat it out with dodgey air con and the toilet being out of order yet again - we realised we weren't going to miss the bus journeys that much! We arrived in Khao San road and after checking out a few hostels we took the plunge and stayed in a nice, authentic Thai hotel, complete with a posh rooftop area and swimming pool! It was significantly above our normal budge...

It doesn't get much better than this - sharing a big cold beer Chang on our guesthouse terrace looking out to the seemingly infinite horizon as we are treated to our final stunning sunset on Koh Chang! It has been a perfect few days here and exactly what we had hoped for, and we got real lucky with the weather too! It was all a far cry from how we felt arriving on Tuesday night though - when after 12 hours of being herded around in what felt like forever on our...

OH MY BUDDHA!! The last few days in Chiang Mai have been awesome and will definitely take some beating. After finding somewhere to stay, we got some brekkie then crashed out for a couple of hours, standard after getting a night bus! The rest of the day we put to good use by booking onto a cooking course for the next day, a trip to an elephant park the day after, and a bus to take us all the way to Vientiane in Laos for the day after that (we skilfully managed to...

The boat of hell dropped us off at the port in Chumphon at 6am - apparently 90 minutes late, but at the time we were too busy coming to terms with the fact that we had actually managed to sleep at all, to take any notice! We then got bundled into a sawawraw to a cafe that seemed to serve as a ticket office, and then the same guy dropped us off outside not a bus station but just a random bus parked down a quiet street - with one ticket supposedly covering us 7 'fa...

The journey to Ko Tao was pretty painless, but Jonny got soaked a few times from seawater blowing in through the window which was very funny!We rocked up on Sairee Beach (after some fruitless bargaining with the tuk tuk driver) and I set off on a quest to find us somewhere to stay for the night. It seems that the days of cheap beach huts have long since passed, and I think the top end of what I was quoted was 2,100 Baht for one night. Needless to say I moved swif...