Hello from Koh Samet! We have spent the last 5 days doing absolutely nothing and loved it! Koh Samet is an island about 3 hours from Bangkok where all the rich Thais come to spend their weekends. We are staying in the most expensive room we have had the whole time we've been away (a whopping 7 quid each/night) but it is our last week and we have deserved it! It was an interesting journey here. The road from Siem Reap to Polpet is ridiculous-buses should not be ...

Hello, This is our last day in Thailand before heading to the Laos border tonight. We arrived in Pai to the joy of Lisa getting very ill!! She blames dodgy chicken from our first meal here. So lisa spent the first couple of days in bed while I (Rich) went back and forth from the pharmacy to get her some delicious medicine. I also hired a bike and cycled to a little fishing park to try and catch some piranhas (no luck - but very relaxing) I felt very conscious o...

Hello all, The sleeper train up from Ayuttaya was very peaceful and it was a good job the train was 30mins late arriving because we were still fast asleep in our PJs when the train was supposed to pull in to Chiang Mai station! Chiang Mai is a cool place with a moat around the old city and plenty of markets to stroll around, but most of all it is generally more chilled out than Bangkok so it suits us fine. That night we went to the night safari (the ex-presiden...

Hello! We love Kanchanaburi! We did the cooking school on Monday, was really good! Learnt loads, just hope we can manage to cook the recipes at home! Went cycling up to the bridge over the river Kwai too; it was fun despite the fact that my (Lisa) bike had no brakes! Yesterday we went on a tour around the province. First stop was Erawan waterfall and it was amazing! Its a seven tier waterfall with a 2km hike to the top, and one of the most beautiful places we'v...

Hello all, Kanchanaburi is amazing! Had a fantastic day today. After a hearty spicy soup breakfast we went to the Thai-Burmese Railway Museum all about WWII and how the Japanese ordered thousands of PoWs to construct the 'Death Railway' named so as nearly 100,000 people died building it (loads of them British). It was a really interesting museum; upsetting too when we learnt about what the PoWs lives were like. This afternoon we went to Tiger Temple (pretty fam...