Hello again, well we have had a bit of a change in our travel plans. A few days ago we were in Vientiane, trying to book a bus to Hanoi in Vietnam. The bus was due to be a local bus for 24 hours, and was fully booked. For some reason we then made a snap decision to return to Thailand and Malaysia rather than visiting Vietnam. This may be a mistake and I'm sure we'll regret it in years to come, however it felt right at the time and after a few days on some beautif...

Hello again, we are now in Chang Mai in the north of Thailand having just returned from a few days trekking. We were in a group of about 14 people, and after meeting everyone we had a short ride on an elephant which was OK but probably not something we'd do again. Jon rode on the neck of the elephant rather than on its back, and spent most of his time concentrating on staying on. After lunch we had a 3 hour walk to the village where we would be spending the eve...

Happy new year everyone, best wishes for a happy and successful 2008! Well, we've had a busy week or so, starting on Koh Tao where we tried scuba diving. Jon was very good, and enjoyed saying hello to the fishes and looking at all the coral. Unfortunately for some reason I couldn't manage to stay under the water, and spent most of the time on the surface, trying very hard to make it under the surface. It was basically a very expensive form of snorkelling. The fo...

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! We have been very lazy with updating this site recently, I would like to say it's because we've been really busy, but in reality we have been lazing about on a variety of beaches and couldn't bring ourselves to move, sorry about that. After leaving Malaysia we ended up with a bit of a mammoth journey to Ao Nang beach in Krabi. The beaches were lovely, clear water, clean sand and huge limestone rock formations jutting out of ...