Hello everyone, We hope all is well at home, we are missing you all lots! After our time in Cambodia we went back to Bangkok. As you may remember our first impressions of Bangkok was that it was mad and we didn't really like it. However this was now our fourth time in Bangkok (or Josh's sixth time counting his previous trip) and now being completely at ease with mad cities after spending time in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh to name a few - Bangko...

Hi everyone, So we last left you hung over in Chiang Mai - our hotel sent off our passports for us to get our visas for Vietnam sorted which meant that we were stuck in Chiang Mai for a few days (as you can't check into hotels without a passport). We spent our first full day looking at some temples a lady (we think, you can never be 100%) from the hotel recommended. We were a bit worse for wear when she was telling us why to go to them but she circled t...

Hi everyone, glad you like the blog - hope everyone at home is ok! So on Saturday we set off from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi. We had a bit of a nightmare in the taxi trying to find Thonburi Station where we got the train from. The taxi driver didn't speak or understand English, so after making various train noises and actions (think chooo chooo noises), we finally showed him a picture of a train and everything turned out ok. The train was third class, which was ...

Hi everyone, we're going to have to write this in the third person so we can both contribute - hope we don't sound stupid... So on Tuesday after months of saving, a week of goodbyes and a brilliant party, it was time to leave for Bangkok. Everyone was very emotional, but it was nice to have one last goodbye. The mood was picked up by Grandad Wilf and Grandad Les singing the Maori goodbye song! When we finally got through bag checking (we went in the longest q...