Hello....

soooo much has happened since i was last on here.

24/10 = this day it was raining heavy so we decided only to cycle to Chumphon. No problem with dogs today all was good! we stopped for some food but no one could understand so jonny just said ok we will have whatever.......well the food didn't stop coming out. We had sooo much food brought out to us that even 4/5 people could not even eat! Eventually we arrived at chumphon and went to a tourist info place to find somewhere to stay ended up in a really nice hotel and pretty cheap too! Once we were showered went for a walk in town and picked some leaflets for a island called Koh Tao sounds pretty good!!

25/10 = Both woke up last night to the sound of thunder and rain. both decided not to cycle and have a rest day......and also decided to go and explore the island for a bit!! so we bought two tickets for the over night ferry which left at 11.00pm that night and arrived at 5.00am the next day!! so as you can imagine we spent the whole day sat in a cafe playing cards and wayhay!!! we met another cyclist, Mario. He had been touring around for 3months and heading back home to Vancouver!! So we sat talking to him for ages!! 11.00pm got to the boat and boy it was soooo old school. hahaha there was mattreses on the floor with a towel to cover up and keep warm and you just lie next to strangers it was a cool journey!!

26/10= woke up at 5am with every one getting off the boat. Everyone seemed like they knew where they were going but me and jonny didnt have a clue and it was still pitch black outside. Anyway it turned out that we got off the boat and sat on the side till sunrise!! then we looked for somewhere to stay! 1st place we found we took as we were both dying for a shower...it was not the best place but we were only sleeping there. We looked for somewhere else on foot and its soo much easier to look around without the bike because those dogs did not like us with the bike!

27/10 - 4/11 We spent all this time on the island.....what we call chill out time hahaha It was stunning and we found a beautiful spot right on the beach....you can see from the piccys. Went snorkelling and swimming in the sea lots of westerners around and two nights terrified by the thunder and lighting! It was right above us on counting in between really really scary!! on the 4th we got the day ferry to Surat Thanni were we get back on the bike for some hard core cycling! After we just got off the boat we got on the bike and then there was this 6ft long thing on the other side of the road that looked like a dinosaur because it was soo big it was actually a big lizard!!! (wish we got a piccy)

5/11 = 48.39 miles we done today. Nice day weather was pretty overcast. Dogs fantastic, in fact it was really good on the island because i got over the fear during the week we were there!! We hardly spent any money today without even trying! seen two dead snakes squashed on the side of the roads!

6/11- 7/11 Last night was pretty scary we had something outside our bungalow that sounded like a mad dog!! Growling and deep breathing made both of us jump. Back on the road. Good cycle day again cruising at 15mph we had planned to stop at Tha Sala but when we got there, there was no where to sleep!! so we headed south again to Nakhon si thammarat. After 47.78 miles bum was chaffed and sore!! hahah Found a really nice hotel 5 star hahah and we decided to stay for two days it was sooo cool, Swimming pool, tv, air con, breakfast BIG, hot water!! so in the afternoon we spent most of the time walking around TESCO and got lots of crisps, beers, doughnuts to take back and watch 007 in english at the 5 star hotel with our washinf line hanging up in the room!! hahahah

8/11 - woke up early jonny dodgy tummy again!!! But still went on the road! 41.12 miles and chilled at a bungalow by the sea. Didnt eat much today as the bungalow was in the middle of nowhere so went to bed hungry and woke up hungry!!

9/11 - 10/11 = today was a hard day sweat lots and had to keep stopping as the temp was very very hot!! after 40.71 miles we found somewhere to stay and decided to rest the next day!!

Will continue another day!! x