After spending a few days in a room of 5 people with on and off rain it was the day of the half moon party. Chris Rach and Vik got stuck at the supermarket in torrential rain after heading out to get some provisions for the evening. The provisions as Vik has just stated were more buckets, but dead cheap. The half moon party was a little dissapointing as unfortunately we had to pay to get in (full moon as we're told is free). It started well but the police hadn'...

Second night on koh tao we went to a bar called 'EZ bar' which was the most awesome bar yet - sold spliffs, and cheap buckets. The buckets are deadly, full bottle of sangsom rum (80%) in each one plus concentrated red bull, best of all they give no hangover what so ever. We also met Leon, our resident mantis (they are huge and make the loudest noise, a little like crickets) who danced to kings of leon, good taste. Next day we hired kayaks and took on what we ...

Just got into a very nice but pretty expensive cafe (only one on island) so apologies if a lil snappy!! After finishing with chiang mai which i can now spell correctly, we got a bus (10 hours, no room, literally for our long english legs) to bangkok with the intention of getting another overnight train, however everything went t*** up. Ended up having to get another 8 hour bus to champong - we didnt have anywhere to stay in bangkok so stayed in the huge air co...

Okay, our first main blog post - where to start?! In Bangkok I guess. We had a great, if a little dubious time in bangkok, what with jon getting kidnapped in a taxi and having to pay up 3 grand baht (about 60 quid), and various other scams, all which i'm glad to say chris, vik and steve didnt fall for ha! A firm no does the job nicely. The city is an amazing place, so very different from anywhere any of us have ever been, they are crazy drivers - no need to pay...

just got into the hostel bloody humid, but awesome!!!! got a rooftop pool and no toilet paper, good combo, anyway just a quickie to let everyone know we got here safe. xxx