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...

Our trip to Koh Samui was longer than originally planned. And we hadn't originally planned to come here at this point if at all. We didn't know what to expect from Koh Samui, we knew there were lots of resorts and after our Phi Phi experience and with it being so close to Koh Phangnan (full moon party island) we didn't know whether it would be our sort of place. The journey across was a whopping 13 hours from Koh Lanta. We got to Krabi easily but when we trie...

Having read that Koh Phi Phi was overly expensive to stay on, but still wanting to visit both the islands we decided that a day trip was the best and, in the long run, the cheapest way to see everything that Phi Phi had to offer. Koh Phi Phi is actually two islands; Phi Phi Don, the larger party island, and Phi Phi Lei, the smaller one, protected as a nature reserve so no hotels, but no lack of tourists. The ferry ride from Koh Lanta to Phi Phi was nauseating ...