Well you will all be pleased to know that we have left Bangkok and so are we. They have an election on at the minute and everywhere has a ban on serving alcohol till Monday morning, which is a shame because Mel and Christina had a fruit juice and it left them not feeling too well yesterday, which proves that drinking beer is good for you!!!!! We took the 90 minute train journey North to the old capital city of Ayutthaya our home for the next 3 nights.This was t...

Sawadee Had a really relaxing day yesterday as we have pretty much covered all the Bangkok sights in our 2 visits here and we spent the day round the pool reading and catching up with diary entries (rock and roll) But there was a purpose for this we were saving ourselves for the theatre, yes last night we visited the theatre and watched an amazing show. Our chauffeur collected us and we had these giant armchair like chairs to sit in.The minivan was like a rock ...

Sawadee Hi Everyone, I thought I would bring you up to speed with the latest activity from Bangkok. Yesterday (11th) we left Bangkok for the morning and took a 1h 30m drive to the oldest floating market in this area. Our guide collected us at 7am and we headed off in the minivan. As usual we were only going for about 5 minutes and we needed to stop for fuel, our guide was very bossy and seemed to be doing a hundred things at once, one of which was giving 2 girl...

Hi Guys When we left you last we were preparing to leave Laos, after leaving Vientiane we picked up our minibus (rickshaw) for the 20km ride to the border. The guards stamped us out of the country and all of a suden the 2500 kip fee to leave had jumped to 3000 kip in a breath!!! Thai immigration was a breeze then it was on to Nong Khai to connect with the overnight train to Bangkok. All the 1st class sleepers had sold out so we ended up in 2nd class a/c which w...

Sawadee I know that I said there would be no blog today but it seems that you can get an internet connection anywhere these days and the Thai people don't miss a trick. Today has been the first day that both of us felt like coming home, we have just had an horrendous journey up to Chiang Khong (the border town where will enter Laos tomorrow) There were 10 of us crammed into a minivan and the air con didn't work, our luggage was chucked on the roof and we didn'...