Okey dokey peeps, onward to Chiang Mai We got to our VIP bus stop about an hour before the bus did (typical Thai time) and waited outside in the absolute pissing rain before loading up our bags and getting on the bus. The wrong bus. Much confusion followed involving every body with the wrong ticket getting off and trying to unload their bags from the luggage bay. After about half an hour of people generally milling around, some guy just jumps in the luggage ...

Okey dokey peeps I guess I'd better tell you all about the Bangkok social ebent of the year. MANDY'S BIRTHDAY! We got up and opened cards over breakfast (prompting Mandy to cry in her cornflakes) and Kimberley gave her a new top and a friendship band that matched hers (ahhhh) and then it became blatantly apparent that I had failed miserably to provide either a card or a present. Apparently back in the Treehouse in Koh Chang Mand had picked up a necklace and ...

Okey dokey peeps. We got back in to Bangkok on the evening of the 4th July and one of the first people we see is a guy called Mikkel who we'd met in the Treehouse in Koh Chang which was a bit strange but hey these things happen. After finding lodgings and going out for an Indian, we headed for Khaosan Road (KSR), the 'heart of backpacker land' in Bangkok. I was expecting Soi Cowboy on a grander scale and Mandy was expecting that scene out of The Beach with...

Hi all So we jumped in a 'taxi' and shot off to meet Kimbers and the guy she's travelling with, Emmett. After a shouty huggy reunion and a polite how do you do for Emmett we went, obviously, to a bar for a getting to know you drink. This turned rowdy after about an hour and really rowdy an hour or two after that. A Swiss girl Emmet had met before told us she was going to watch the football and who were we to decline. I'm proud to say I was more into it than ...

Hi all Where to begin with Koh Chang! Well we got up after agood night's sleep (well 4 hours for me and 2 for Mandy who took one for the team when she woke up early and realised the alarm clock had run out of batteries) and off we went. Breakfast at the train station and with an increasingly grumpy Mand we boarded the bus. 6 hours and several childish squabbles later (mainly due to me listening to Bob Dylan on the ipod so Mand had a whiny sound in her...