We have stayed in Phuket for ages! It's been great to have a holiday within a holiday. We have mostly relaxed and chilled out by the pool, we have ventured into Patong a few times, we got free tickets to "Simon Caberet" which I'm glad were free because we watched a much better Lady-Boy show in town in a bar. Tomorrow we are having another "Driving Day". It's a five hour bus journey and an hour or so on a ferry from Phuket to Koh Samui. From t...

We have been in Phuket now for 4 days and we love it. Our journey from Langkawi involved a half hour taxi ride with Malaysia's answer to Lewis Hamilton, he got us to the ferry terminal in record time. Then an hours ferry ride to Satan in Thailand and a seven hour bus journey to Phuket followed by a twenty minute taxi ride to our hotel. We are staying in Karon beach (the posh bit) however we have been to Patong beach (if you are thinking Pat Pong - Ping Pong...

We successfully negotiated our travel from Bangkok Train Station, platform 5 to Chiang Mai Station on the overnight train. We left Bangkok at 6pm at a speed of about 20 mph, we had a 1st class cabin (with air-con), sounds great but my idea of first class is a little different. We had a seat which folded up into two bunks and after a beer each from the steward we decided it was bed time. The train must have gathered pace during the night because each time I awok...

We have been exploring Bangkok but it's hot so today we had a well deserved day by the pool! We leave here on Monday night on the overnight train to Chiang Mai in the North. We will be there for a few days before heading into Laos. For anyone who fancies Bangkok it's an amazing place, it's so busy and a complete contrast to Hong Kong. The ping pong show was an essential and very weird tourist experience though!

We are now in Bangkok. We eventually left Hong Kong in the typhoon which led to a 3 hour delay and a fairly shakey take off. The drive from the airport to the hotel was intersting with the taxi driver not knowing where the hotel was. The hotel is cool, we have a pool and more importantly a great bar 50 yards away called Gullivers which does awesome Thai food. We are currently in Patpong (PingPong as known by the tourists) in an internet cafe between 2 strip j...