New Year in Bangkok I arrived at my fancy pants hostel in Bangkok around 13.00pm after 7 hours on two ferries, 5 hours wait at a train station, 12 hours on a train, then a metro, then a skytrain. Easy! It was a pretty cool place, with small, clean, dorm rooms and a couple of communal areas downstairs. It was located in a more central part of the city and when I looked up where the big celebrations were going to be, I found they were only a mile further down the ...

Bangkok (3 nights) A minivan turned up at my resort on Koh Chang to pick up me and one other, an Australian girl called Jo. We stopped at other places on the island, but nobody else got in, so it was just the two of us! The minivan was new and air-conditioned and drove us all the way. However, the van went to the airport and not to the city centre, so we had to change to an airport shuttle bus once we got there. We were also delayed by a slow ferry journey, so, ...