Had to get up at 5am in Cairns for our first trip on the Oz Experience bus. So far, so good. Made our way down south to Townsville where we boarded the ferry across to Magnetic Island. Staying at Base hostel on the island. It's right on the beach and you stay in small beach hut style dorms. Paradise....again. Went for a walk to the old forts on the island. It's a home for wild koalas but did we see any??? No. Enjoyed the walk and the sunset from the top of th...

Boarded out flight from BKK to sydney on Saturday. It's an Emirates flight and feels like luxury! We get a menu, free socks, the Disney back catalogue, lights like stars in the ceiling and.... Free wine. We got so childishly excited we didn't sleep. Bummer. Arrived in Sydney early in the morning with 5 hours to kill. Exhausted, we even attempted sleeping on the airport floor. Eventually got our connection to Cairns, yet more free food. This is helpful as from o...

Got on our last ever overnight train to Bangkok. Despite nit speaking any Thai and eating mouth burning curry from the station we did it. Downside, the bed was covered in dead bugs, the window had no curtain and we were next to a proper Danish hippy. He was wearing tie dye, crystals and told us about his spiritual experiences on Koh Samui. Turns out these experiences were aided by magic mushrooms, whoda thunk it?! Made it back to the hostel where if all starte...

Spent a couple of days at Kata beach in Phuket. Lots of Russians in speedos is about all there was to see. Enjoyed spending time on the beach and in our £15 luxury room :) Booked our boat and headed for Phi Phi. As the ferry pulls into the island it's like arriving in paradise. We were planning on staying in the hostel but got distracted by the fact that we could stay in our own room for the same price so failed, again. Had 5 days on the island and although w...

Went to book our overnight train to Phuket but they were booked up for days so had to settle for a bus. I broke the news to a very hungover very unimpressed Jenn! Had to kill the day till our bus, said goodbye to Suzy. Just Jenn and I left from the tour now. Had a right trek to the bus office then had to wait 2 hours for it to arrive.... grrr. Bus was ok, they put Avatar on for us to watch and we actually managed to sleep. There was only about 12 of us on the w...