I managed to get away from Bottle Beach and back to Koh Samui to try and change my flights home. I realised I had 2 choices. Either go back to Bangkok and fly home from there, or fly to Singapore as planned and then home. Either way, all my flights needed changing, and I had 3! It became clear that by the time I got to Koh Samui I had missed any chance of leaving until the following day, which meant I would actually only get back to the UK 1 day ahead of the orig...

After an 18 hour journey, by super duper best ever including working aircon blankets and a toilet on board - bus, a ferry, a taxi and a longtail taxi boat, I arrived in paradise. This is what I had been waiting for. You can only access this beach by boat, and was supprised, but also glad that no-one else was heading this way. This is a place called 'Hat Khuat' aka 'Bottle Beach'. I have no idea why it was called bottle beach, as the only bottles I found had beer...

Over the next few days, it just kept raining, and when I mean rain, it absolutly pelted it down. I couldnt belive I was buying an umberella in Thailand, it just didnt seem right, but it was the only way to still get out and not get as wet. I didnt really get to see as much of Bangkok as I wanted. The floating markets only seemed to be working on a saturday and sunday, the so called 'best' market to go to, as suggested by my guidebook, only opened on a weekend, a...

Bangkok. Finally I get to see the Big Apple of South East Asia. I managed to catch a bus from the train station to Khaosan Road, the famous backpacker central. What a wicked place. All of the sudden you feel very safe, without it being over the top touristy. At least not like Vang Viang. I like it a lot! Time to settle in and get my bearings. I was going to get a train or bus to Kanchanaburi, but all of the sudden that felt like a lot of effort. I had found a pl...

I arrived in Lopburi very tired at 6.30am. I didnt get much sleep on the train as I could only get a seat, not a sleeper. I went straight to a guesthouse from my guidebook to get a room and slept for a few hours. It was the biggest room so far, bigger than my bedroom back home even! Wicked! I decided i'd done enough walking about, all this moving about and major sight seeing stuff was wearing me out, so I got a bloke on a bike to take me around on a little tour....