We arrived on Koh Samui and forgot all about the earlier unpleasantness and turned ourselves to something far more important. Laura's departure. Laura, as some of you may know, decided to go home slightly earlier than we are and was to fly back up to Bangkok to get her connecting flight back to London from there. As a result, Koh Samui was all about saying goodbye to Laura. She will be missed by all of us and we hope that she managed to get home without g...

The first half of our journey down to Malaysia was the easiest yet. The taxi got us to the ferry port just as the ferry docked, we grabbed tickets and jumped on board. Once at the other side we needed to get a bus to the centre of town and from there it was another taxi journey to the train station, which we did with no problems. However this is where our luck ran out, the train we needed to Butterworth, Malaysia was fully booked. But the ticket guy gave us tic...

After another short stint on the high speed catamaran we arrived on Koh Phangan. We had gone there to experience one of the parties the island is famous for. Although our timing was a bit off for a Full Moon Party, we had timed it perfectly to coincide with a Half Moon Party. We had allowed ourselves enough time to get some sleep, get up and go to the party, then have a good nights sleep and be on the next boat out of there. We had been warned it was not a ...

We arrived in Koh Tao after taking the night train from Bangkok (which arrived in at 3:00am) and catching the high speed catamaran over from Chumphon. When we eventually arrived at our hostel, a few of us were pretty tired and hungry. The last thing any of us wanted was an incredibly enthusiastic diving instructor pushing courses on us. Everyone ended up agreeing to something. Sarah did her discovery dive, Tom did a refresher of his Open Water certification wh...

Oh how we love trains. Our journey back to Bangkok was uneventful and easy. We arrived at our hotel just before lunch so we had showers and headed out into Khaosan Road. This is the main backpacker road in Bangkok and has lots of bars and little stalls selling useless tat. We bumped into Danielle and Ramon so ended up sitting in a bar and spending the afternoon chilling with a few drinks. We were supposed to be having an early night ready for New Year the next ...