Hey all...... So as you can imagine after India we really needed a place to chill and work out what we were going to do in Asia (as we need to get our visas sorted for China) so what better place to do this than Phuket! Found a great place to stay for 10 nights, it was a Best Western hotel in Patong, and for around 30 pound a night we got a great room in this new hotel with breakfast......it was so good we decided to stay a bit longer.... an extra week!!! The ...

Kanchanaburi. About 3 hours drive outside Bangkok. Got our trip sorted through a reputable agent (after shopping around.) Our trip itinerary consisted of a trip to the "Bridge over the river Kwai", Elephant riding and a visit to the Tiger Temple. As you can see from the pictures the highlight has got to be the Tiger Temple (well, you don't usually get to clap a tiger, do you!!)

Sa-waa-dee-kah (Hello) Well what can we say about Koh Samui...........Great choice Rob (Rob is our STA Travel guy, and he suggested it as a chill out place for us to get a base on the tan before we started travelling properly.........and he was so right!!!) As you can see from some of the pictures, the place we were staying (the Peace Resort) was very nice indeed. We certainly weren't slumming it here ☺! After the madness of Bangkok on our initial arrival, i...

Hello everyone! That's us just had our first successful download of photos of our first day in Bangkok...... went really well except for Iain nearly throwing the laptop out in front of a Tuc-Tuc (this is a motorbike with some sort of two seated trailer) due to the fact internet speed isn't so good here...... understandable!!! (Iain's in the background saying "No....it isnae!!") Anyway sooooo warm and humid here, temp is about 35 degrees...........had ...