Hello everyone! Sorry it's been ages since we wrote a blog... it's been tough getting to a computer and we are very behind! Just a quick one today to let you know we are both still alive and are staying at the Marriott Hotel in Phuket! We are very ashamed of ourselves as we were trying to be backpackers on a 'shoestring' budget but somehow along the way we got sick of that and were craving a nice clean bed and swimming pool! We checked in on Saturday and have bee...

Hello all! Well, we've been having an amazing couple of days on Koh Tao island here in Thailand. We are incredibly relaxed and even getting up from the sunlounger is an effort now unfortunately! But we have been having a great time learning how to dive. We signed up for an Open Water SCUBA course which is a 4 day intensive course that aims to get you that confident that you can actually dive by yourself (with your buddy) and without the aid of an instructor. We...

Hello! Well we finally made it to Koh Tao island and it was really worth the journey. We left Bangkok last night at 7.30 on another overnight bus. Again, no sleep even with the aid of 'sleeping tablets' (they were probably paracetemol or something). We had been told that the bus would arrive in Chumphong at around 5.45am and we would only have to wait about an hour for our ferry journey to the island. We actually arrived in Chumphong at 2.00pm and had to sleep on...

Hello everyone! We're back in Bangkok now but not for long which is good because it's roasting here! It's 10am now and already 36 degrees and absolutely no breeze. We took a night bus from Vientiane in Laos over the boarder and back in to Thailand. This bus was much better than the bus we took in Laos and had reclining leather seats. Immigration was pretty easy, the bus drops you off and you get your passport stamped and then get back on to the bus again. Simple...

Hi - well now we are in Laos but we didn't get a chance to update our blog in Chiang Mai before we left so we will backtrack before we bring you up to date. The day after the tigers (15/03) we actually spent the day in Chiang Mai having a look at the city and exploring. This followed an extremely long lie in which, believe it or not, we haven't had very many of since we've come away! The town is quite old and divided in to the new town and the old town which is s...