People All the Thai people are friendly (apart from THE taxi driver). Like all countries, you do have 'pests' offering their ware, but you just shake your head and they go away. On the last night I felt sorry for one old lady (see pics) and inspected her ware. They have wallets, bangles, bracelets, hats and other trinkets. I suppose all made by themselves. How they earn a living I just don't know. However, the bead bracelet I chose, broke ten minutes after she...

Arriving in Bangkok Another fraudster awaited us here! We landed and queued for a taxi to take us into town. The fat, lazy, arrogant, non communicative driver charged us 550 Baht. Would NOT put the meter on (despite both of us asking 3 times). He decided to take the long route in through two tolls and queues of traffic (thought we were on the M25). Chloe was furious. It took us over an hour. When we arrived, I gave him a 1,000 Baht & 50 Baht note, expectin...

Travelling to Kamala The night crossing went well, had taken the seasickness pills and a sleeping pill. It was a very tight squeeze in the boat, rows & rows of mattresses. I did notice that where the 'foreigners' slept, it was like three to a double mattress size, yet on the other side in was only two to a double bed! Cheek! We had checked in (online) to the best room we had all holiday. Aircon, modern, huge walk in shower and separate toilet. The weather ...

Travelling to Ko Tao Took a catamaran to this beautiful island. YUK! Three and a half hours of sickness! - ending with me (along with half the boat) filling up a sick bag and handing back to one of the attendants ha ha! How Chloe kept it in I don't know! Horrendous journey. Landed finally in Ko Tao, had to search amongst hundreds of backpacks and suitcases to find our luggage ourselves. It had all been dumped in a pile. Couldn't find Chloe's holdall! Got some ...

Landing in Koh Samui Collected my bags once landed and searched for Chloe. Couldn't see her and got panicky. Walked up two corridors and then finally I saw her and I was giving her a cuddle (both of us cried). Luckily she then took over! Phew! Took a taxi to the 'hotel' and unloaded everything into the room. It was an 'OK' room (Chloe thought it was a good oneJ). Although I had been travelling for 24 hours with no sleep, we met up with Liz (Chloe's friend) and...