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...

Righty ho, Bangkok part 2. Sorry about the rather abrupt end to the last post card, but we had Kimberley and Emett's bank cards and had to rush off. So, after eventually recovering from our hangovers we decided we should at least see a bit of culture while we were here. We picked out 3 sights we really wanted to see and 9 in the morning saw us heading for the Metro full of the joys of Spring and bouncing like bunnies. We got to the our stop and jum...

Okey dokey peeps, thought it was about time we filled you in on our first week. Managed about 6 hours sleep on the plane in between some of the worst food imaginable (grey chicken microwaved in some kind of orange jelly. Dear god i can still taste it!). Got a taxi from the airport to the Grand Hotel and got our first taste of Bangkok traffic. Jesus Christ. These people are off their trolleys. Imagine 5 lanes of traffic all driving like me. Weaving in and out of...