Hello all, just to let you all know we are alive...after the notorious KO phangan full moon party! Mark was very impressed by the big knee ups, but less impressed with our 9am departure the next morning!! Nevertheless we partied and had a couple of "Good f***ing buckets". (see photos for more explanation). Ko phangan was busy as expected, and we even bumped into another English couple on the way over who we met in Chaing Mai on the trek! And the blood...

Hello again...we finally made it to the islands, after travelling for over 23 hours non stop from Chiang Mai. Not nice...but at least we got it all over and done with in one go! We got the overnight VIP bus down to Bangkok - which was spookily trying to be an airplane...but very comfortable. We arrived in Bangkok at 4am to find out we were in the north bus station out of the city. We jumped into a cab in the hope to get the train outta Bangkok (a city which Mark ...

 Despite what we said we unfortunately made the mistake of starting our trek on 5 hours sleep and hungover!! Believe us we wont make that mistake again!! We were picked up from our guest house 9.30am sharp, then did the rounds to pick up the other trekkers and went on our way. We were driven 1 hour in the blazing sun, guzelling water and eating crisps (bear in mind the hangover) and Alaine had a quick cat nap. 1st destination was a food market where we were ...

After a long journey to chiang mai from bangkok with a very comfortable 1st class sleeper carriage, despite the friendly lady who tried to sell us beer every hour we arrived to be mobbed by a fleet of taxis and people trying to take us to their guest houses. We followed our bible otherwise known as the lonely planet and found ourselves at a lovely little spot called jonadda guesthouse. Off of the main drinking strip it was a great find owned by a thai and aussie ...

After a very comfortable flight with quantas, we arrived in Bangkok a little tired but generally in good spirits. Despite a close call with being ripped off by a illegal taxi, we managed to get to our hotel for a cheap price! When we arrived they had the red carpet out and the hotel was swamped with police and the army...we thought this was extreme if anything...we know we are special...but this was ridiculous. However we were disappointed to then discover a...