Up early for the bus journey to Bangkok, six hours. As is the norm on these trips we stopped off at a severely over priced cafe after about fours hours. We were sat have our fried rice (the only thing we could afford there) and heard a load shriek from one of the Thai employees there. Everyone turning round to find out what was going on we commenced to watch a hilarious argument between the owner of the cafe, one of the guys on our bus, and an ice cream seller...

We decided to have a day by the beach as it was stunning weather and we'd found a nice spot with not many people around. At the opportunity for a swim Tom headed straight for the sea and commenced to bob around on his own for 45 minutes. After a few hours we headed back to have a shower before going out for tea and typically we both found we'd burnt our shoulders. Odd really because we hadn't spent long in the sun, at least after 5 weeks away we now have some c...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> After a good nights sleep under our mosquito net we got up and went for some breakfast, We then had a potter around the little shops and Rachael bought a new dress! By this stage we were both running out of clean clothes so decided to pay to get our washing done, rip off! With plans to head to the beach in the afternoon we went in hunt of a traditional café/restaurant for lunch. The plac...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> We checked out of the guest house this morning and got on our coach for the six hour journey south east to Ko Chang, which is a beach resort on an island of the main land We arrived late afternoon on a ferry and as it turned out Matt who we'd met a few days ago had also made the same journey so we walked around the small resort of Lonely Beach and settled on a hut by the sea well within our ...

Gaining a little confidence in the city, we decided to catch an "express boat" down the river as we were going to see the Grand Palace. It worked really well and we arrived at the pier right outside the Palace. We were soon approached by a "helpful" Thai guy who informed us that the Palace was closed until 1.00pm, but we should go and visit various other sites which he was marking out on the map. Fortunately we've become wise to these helpfu...