We are now in Phuket We booked the mini bus to take us all the way to Patong beach, but because it was their new years celebration we were told that the roads were closed so they would just drop us in the centreof Phuket then we would have to get a bus (how can a bus get through but a mini van cant) So the bus took ages to get to Phuket then there were four of us walking around Phuket trying to find the bus. We eventually did it was a open sided bus and we had ...

Krabi looks great in the postcards so we thought give us some of that. When we got here its like any other sea side town but with no beac! all the postcard photos are of the surrounding islands in the Krabi province. We were planning on getting a boat to Ko Phi Phi (phi phi island is where they filmed the beach) but tomorrow is songkran (the thai new year a massive event with water fights on every corner.) Everywhere we looked on the island is fully booked, so c...

Hey everyone.Back in thailand now, we were going to stay in Penang for a few days but on the way we were reading the old trustee guidebook and it said it was a dump, so we werent that up for it. When we got to Butterworth (where you catch the ferry to penang) we got dropped near the train station. We were planning on catching the train to thailand in a few days we just want to check how much and what time. We got told that the train comes at 1.15pm but its delaye...

Well we are in Pattaya now, Land of Lady Boys and crap wooden frogs. WORLD CAPITAL OF SLEAZE! BRING IT ON I SAY.We went for the budget option the first night we had to stay about 15minutes for the town centre so we had to get these strange open back buses to town and back for thais it costs about 10p for us its 2 pound i know i sound like a cheap skate but it annoys you after a while. On the site where we booked the room for the night it said about having an amaz...

Ok we are now in Ayutthaya, its the old capital of Thailand. We had a nightmare trying to get here though because neither one of us could say it, so we just ended up pointing at it to people at the bus station and finally we got on the right bus.Its full of old ruins and temples, we went to one and all the budda statues are headless form when burma invaded thailand a couple of hundred years ago they went round beheading all the statues and melting down all the go...