Koh Chang has been the best of the Thai islands for me. I headed for Lonely beach and splashed out on a seafront bungalow with a hammock and a deck chair. As soon as I'd checked in I went for a walk down to the beach and instantly bumped into half 4 Argentenian guys that had been on the bus trip from hell to Luang Prabang. And there were a few other familiar faces that I'd met along the way. The Island is so chilled out including all of the locals who run the ba...

I've basically got a couple of weeks to use up before heading off to Cambodia so I decided to head back south and hit a couple of the other Islands. Ko Samet is basically the place where all Thai's hit at the weekend as it's only 3 hours from Bangkok. It's a pretty cool island. I stayed at the Naga's beach huts and got a very basic beach bungalow with mossie net for 250 bhat a night which is about 4 quid. It was on one of the nicer beaches, and there's quite a f...

I'd already been in Bangkok for a couple of days after the Full Moon Party, so this was the second visit, and probably won't be the last, so I'll keep this short. On the first night I bumped into Cathy on Khao San Rd which is where most of the backpackers hang out. I'm not really sure why as it reminds me a bit of Faliraki, but if you are going to bump into someone it will be there. Anyway she was meeting a friend and it all turned into a bit of session. I do re...

Pai wasn't originally on the Thailand agenda but I'd met Janine in Vietnam then in Bangkok and she insisted that I had to go. I'd read the couple of pages in the Lonely Planet and sort of expected a bit of a hippy commune. When I arrived I actually wasn't too far from the mark. It's not exactly a hippy commune but it is really laid back. It's sort of hard to describe the place but 10 minutes after arriving I was looking for a place to stay that was a little bit ...

I didn't really do too much for the first couple of days in Chiang Ma. There's quite a few things that you can sign up for mostly based around trekking, massage courses, yoga etc. etc. I never intended to do my trek here as I was saving that for Chiang Rai or Pai as I'd been told it was a bit more off the beaten track. So in the end I opted for a days mountain biking. I've never really done any serious stuff, so I blagged it a little bit when they asked about m...