After Chumphon we spent a day travelling down to Krabi in the south of Thailand. This involved a public bus where we were the only non-thai's for 8 hours, a 30 minute wait in a bus station in the middle of nowhere and then a second public bus where we were sat in the luggage area. On this bus Grace found a water bottle rolling around which contained a live fish, seriously, who would bring that on board?! We got to Krabi quite late and checked into a really nice ...

We left Koh Pha Ngan on Friday morning and got on a boat to the coastal town of Chumphon where Cherry, a Thai woman who is kind of a family friend, would be meeting us. The travel company had told us that it would ve a 4 hour boat trip, we ended up being on the boat for 5 and a half hours. On the first leg, from Phangan to Koh Tao we sat on the top deck as the boat was packed and despite using sun cream, still managed to get burnt. There were only a handful of pe...

Koh Phanagn is a party island. The beach we were on, Hat Rin was seemingly created for the sole use of drunk, western tourists. We were there for the Full Moon Party and had been advised to get there early and book ahead, so we had accomodation ready for when we arrived on the 15th. We were staying in a 16-bed dorm room, but had a small 4-bed dorm to ourselves, blocked from the rest of the room with a door we weren't allowed to lock. It was nice enough, except f...

I haven't done a blog post in a while, I also haven't written in my diary for over a week, but strangely enough we're not actually doing that much other than sleeping and chilling on beaches- the relaxing is really tiring :) Koh Tao was really nice, it's an island known for diving and snorkelling, I contemplated trying to face my fear and go snorkelling but in the end decided against it and rented a lilo instead. The beach was pretty nice, the only thing was tha...

Hello! Our last day in Bangkok... After lazing about it our nice air-conditioned room until we had to check out at 12. We checked into a tiny room where the door wouldn't open properly as the bed was in the way, with a small fan which was powered by the key (we used a playing card and my penknife to make it stay on while we out so it wasn't roasting in there when we returned). We visited the Grand Palace. I say visited, we walked over there and had a look, they ...