So now it was time to travel onwards to the paradise like islands of Thailand and landed in Phuket. We met up with Katy, Marike and James at our hostel and discovered that our first island of choice was the Benidorm holiday destination for Australians. We were only here for one night so decided to embrace it and ventured down the 'strip' for dinner and a few drinks which turned into drinking games and watching our first ping pong show with a group of English boys...

Picked up at 7am for our flight to Bangkok. We could have travelled overland but with stories of the wild west border run by the mafia and our need for a 30 day visa, it seemed our best option. We arrived at Bangkok airport on our propeller flown plane an hour earlier than expected. A first from our experience of Asian travel and met a flower weilding Jane and her husband Guy, friends of my friend Hannah, who we were staying with. We were taken by their driver t...

New blog entry 30th August Bangkok to Chaing Mai So the night train to Chaing Mai surpassed all of our expectations, after reading reviews on the Internet, we were both worried about the conditions and the safety of the train (Gemma you would have been proud of our snobbish ways!) but it turned out to be amazing. We have now decided to approach all modes of transport with an air of caution in the hope that we will be pleasantly surprised as we were during the t...

So we arrived in Bangkok after a very emotional journey. "What are we doing?" We eventually found each other in arrivals where Carly had found herself a new Dutch friend called Robin who persuaded us to take the sky train into Bangkok rather than our original plan of getting a taxi. This turned out to save us about 400bht. Nice work Carly! After a few hours sleep (BAD) idea, we ventured into Bangkok in search of food. A short walk, and a lively street market late...