THERE ARE TWO BLOGS ON THIS PAGE, SWITCH BETWEEN THEM AT THE LEFT DROP DOWN BOX The first few days in Sydney: Friday 18th April - Sunday 20th April 2008 Friday April 18th - Landed in Sydney this morning. Flew over on the new double-decker Singapore Airlines plane. The thing is huge yet so quiet when inside. Coming from Singaore the flight was half empty, so I managed to get a window seat and have 3 seats spare to lay out on which was great to get some kip wh...

Tuesday 15th April - Wednesday 16th April 2008 Hello, arrived back from Phi Phi island today. That's the place where The Beach was filmed. Got the boat over early on Tuesday from Phuket habour. Really nice boat to say we paid peanuts to get over there compared to everyone else onboard. It took around 90 mins to get across to Maya bay the place where the movie was filmed, took a few snaps for the album. Then we had a tour around the island on board taking some m...

HI ok so I'm here in Thailand. Started out Thursday 10th April 2008 from Manchester Airport flying at 9.55am. Bidded a fond farewell to mum and dad at the airport, dad tearful as a leaking tap bless him ;) I made my way through airport security, getting frisked along the way as they do. I doodled around for abit, made my last go on a bandit for 1 year, throwing away my spare change that I wouldn't need anymore. The flight was called so made my way down the wal...

Right I now have my visa granted, I'm definately going woooop. Now starts the planning