4th September 2009 6:45pm Kho Phangan Well we are now on the next island and are both the most chilled that we have been yet on our journey. We have our own private beach at Booms Cafe Bungalows and have decided to stay here now until Monday. Its beautiful and Nok (the owner) speaks perfect English and German and is like the Thai family we never knew we had-which is what our Lonely Planet told us!! . On Wednesday we arrived by boat and got a taxi to the bungal...

Monday 31st August 11:30am Ko Tao: Turtle Island Well we finally arrived at the beach! After a small blip in transport (neil lost our boat tickets) we arrived at the main pier in Mae Haad town. W walked up a small stretch and got ourselves a guest house. Its ok, only fan no air con but we can manage!! We are not on the main strip but made it down to a small beach which had only 2 other people on. Neil was pleased to get his feet wet and walked out a little int...

Chumpon Sunday 30th Aug 10:00am Hello all. I bet you were all anticipating our next blog!! Well we had our last day in Chiang Mai on Friday and totally chilled. Had brunch in an organic restaurant and sat on the terrace of our guest house snoozing. We then got in a tuk tuk and headed to the train station bound for Bangkok (great!) We had a connecting ticket from Bangkok then to Chumpon, which is heading South. The sleeper train to Bankok was lovely and comfy and...

Chumpon Sunday 30th Aug 10:00am Hello all. I bet you were all anticipating our next blog!! Well we had our last day in Chiang Mai on Friday and totally chilled. Had brunch in an organic restaurant and sat on the terrace of our guest house snoozing. We then got in a tuk tuk and headed to the train station bound for Bangkok (great!) We had a connecting ticket from Bangkok then to Chumpon, which is heading South. The sleeper train to Bankok was lovely and comfy and...

Chumpon Sunday 30th Aug 10:00am Hello all. I bet you were all anticipating our next blog!! Well we had our last day in Chiang Mai on Friday and totally chilled. Had brunch in an organic restaurant and sat on the terrace of our guest house snoozing. We then got in a tuk tuk and headed to the train station bound for Bangkok (great!) We had a connecting ticket from Bangkok then to Chumpon, which is heading South. The sleeper train to Bankok was lovely and comfy and...