Every year after the summer holidays we would return to school to be set the task of writing the "What I Did During my Holidays" essay, this seems similar.Be warned fellow travelers (Jos, Kathy & Ed), Mr & Mrs P have decided that everyone who meets them has to provide a guest/celebrity blog.So here goes. After 2 exhausting days of traveling I was met at Bangkok airport by two cheerful, well tanned and by now experienced travellers.After a goo...

The day after the night before was not a fun place to be particularly for Rachelle who had an epic hangover. It is sufficient to say that it started and ended in hot and humid hotel rooms split by several hours spent in airports while I alternated between nursing Rachelle back to health and handing out large amounts of cash for airport food & drink. So we arrived in Krabi town grumpy and tired and ready to transfer out to one of the islands for our taste of p...

Antony and I left Hong Kong and arrived in Chiang Mai feeling a bit low.We loved China and left like we were just figuring things out when we packed up and flew off to Thailand.We didn't allow ourselves much moping time and checked into a cheap guest house known for their eco-treks and signed up for a three day trek leaving the following morning.After a terrible night's sleep, we woke up with top 40 songs banging in our heads from the obscenely loud karaoke bar n...