Considering it is the capital city, there is a significant lack of stuff in Vientiane. We arrived super early off the night bus from Bangkok (a journey without event or theft this time - whoop!) and a tiny bit of sleep. We found a guesthouse fairly easily and set off on some Laos errands. The bank must be the best bank, and biggest, that we have been to in Asia. Amazingly easy to get everything done. We stopped for some breakfast, and then set off in search of ...

Yo yo yo homies! We decided to celebrate Laura's birthday with a day trip to Ayutthaya. Having had to reschedule our trip north after our little injury, we didn't want to miss out on everything. It was the old capital of the Siam dynasty and was just reopening after the recent floods. We learnt a lot about the history and about Buddhist monks. The wats we visited here were less like the ones we have seen so far, some were still in use but a lot were ruins from...

Out of all the capital cities we have been to Bangkok is definitely our favourite so far. Delhi was just a bloody nightmare, we only saw the airport in Colombo, Singapore is a bit different, and Kuala Lumpur was really nothing but the Petronas Towers and cheap cinemas. We arrived into Bangkok, with a slight limp, but overall in one piece despite our uncomfortable journey. We had taken the night bus from Samui, and while we hadn't paid for the most expensive one...

So a rundown of our daily routine in Koh Samui went like this: get up late; it's a lot easier to lie in when there is air-con! Then we would roll, I mean hop down the hill to our breakfast place, our usual of eggs and toast for Sean and fruit and yoghurt for Laura. Then a long long limp up the hill, rest at our guesthouse for a while and then another trek the other side down to the hospital for the daily torture, I mean, clean. The trip to either place would ta...

On entry to Thailand by an overland route, you are only issued a 15day visa. If you apply in advance at any Thai embassy before arriving, you can get a 60 day visa for free. There just happens to be on in Penang, Malaysia. Unfortunately we didn't realise until the day after we had left Penang, when we arrived in Langkawi in Malaysia. So it was that on our 14th day in Thailand we set off on a visa run. All you need to do is cross a border and you are issued anot...