Well we've managed about 10 days on Koh Phangan without injuring ourselves or making ourselves too ill!! The four of us managed to last a full week of cheap partying, just about. Including plenty of free buckets from beach netball, fire limbo, fire hoop jumping, some stupid balloon game and yes, sorry mum's fire breathing.....turning into quite the entertainers. Anything for some free drinks, even if we have no eyebrows left now :) Daytimes have generally been ...

Bangkok was a short stint this time as we were all eager to get down south to the islands, especially as Alex and Steph only had a week left. We spent the weekend eating (nothing new there), drinking (ditto) and shopping....! On the Sunday we had a productive day, checked out of our guesthouses, grabbed a delicious mixed fruit shake from a street vendor and a few sticks of BBQ'd chicken/pork/liver. We booked our tickets for that evening to Koh Phangan then went ...

I'm afraid we don't have many poductive activities to report this time, been keeping things fairly cheap and relaxed as we don't have long left :( Vang Vieng was great fun we found a brilliant, cheap guesthouse with Steph and Alex and basically enjoyed the bar and restaurant scene for a day or two. We spent a day doing the infamous (amongst the backpacking contingent) tubing. This involves floating down a river, with or without the aid of a tractor inner tyre a...

Luang Prabang was a great little place, we stayed in a hostel called Spicy Laos which was boiling hot but nice and sociable. The markets were great fun to wander, we had the best baguette sarnies jam packed with food for about 75p and fresh made juices (lime and mint was the best for about 35p). We survived on this for the few days we were in LP. We eventually met up with Alex and Steph and since it was raining when we met we had no choice but to get drunk........

First annoying point is that last night I wrote a huge blog for Tiger Leaping Gorge (TLG form herein) and this morning it somehow deleted itself, very annoying so now I'll try to remember what I wrote! So, first question, why is it not wholly acceptable to wear skippers when trekking? Because I'm sure these swollen maggot shape blisters would not be decorating my heels if I'd been donning some fluffy, padded Marks and Sparks slippers! So first up we were sat ea...