After a terrible bus, the ugliest looking thing from the outside and not much better on the inside, no padding on my seat and we felt every bump in the road. O well, you win some, you lose some. No water or buns unlike the last bus. But we made it to Chiangmai and there were no taxis around, so hopped in a tuk tuk, expensive as expected but got us there. We arrived at our guesthouse Vanilla place at around 9pm, to be greeted by a lovely thai lady called Kat, who ...

Next stop: Bangkok!! But first we had to try and make it there in one piece. We had the worst boat ride of our lives Koh Tao to Chumpon. Now we had been on a very rocky before (sydney whale watching) but this was on another level. A big boat, a catamaran, with a couple hundred people on, in very rough water that the captain decided to go full speed ahead through. They handed out sick bags near the start of the trip an u knew that wasn't a good sign. But for someo...

Arrived to a very unstable looking, rickety wooden pier that looked like it was gona collapse at any moment. But we make it through, only to be mopped by shouts of 'TAXI TAXI'. Thankfully they are kind enough to tell us we don't need a taxi and pointed us in the direction we needed to go to our hostel, which is a 1minute walk away from the pier. We arrive at the Loft Hostel and are greeted by a very friendly thai man with a strong London accent. He learned to spe...

Our journey to Koh Phangan literally took all day. Picked up at 11am by a shuttle (after another amazing breakfast) and taken to a bus station, where we exchanged our tickets for stickers and other tickets. We met Sarah and Joanne here; we could spot other Brits a mile away. They were lovely sisters from Newcastle. Throughout the journeys we said goodbye to them about 3 different times but ended up on the same transport, as they were going to Koh Samui and us to ...

Arrived in Koh Lanta on NYE, after an easy boat ride, Kenny seeing jellyfish the size of footballs, and it was 10baht pp to enter the island. As usual you are bombarded by tuk tuks and I had figured by now that they always rip you off. So the 1st one said 300baht (I knew the journey only took 7-10mins) so as Kenny walked off with him, the next one approached me and said 150. Happy days so we jumped in with him. This caused a bit of disagreement between the driver...