After a week of debauchery, we thought it high time for some culture and history, and there was no better place than Kanchanaburi. This is the site of the infamous bridge over the river Kwai, built by allied POW's captured by the Japanese during World War Two. During the war, the Japanese planned to connect Yangoon (Burma) with Bangkok - despite previous British failed attempts, and their own engineers believing this to be an impossible feat. Between 1942 and ...

On the way to Ko Phangan we made friends wirth an English girl and her Dutch man friend (Abi and Koen) and stayed at the most amazing and luxurious resort, away from the madness of Hat Rin - the stage for the infamous Full Moon Party. We savoured freshly caught snapper and amazingly cheap cocktails each night, and relaxed like gentlemen on the beach by day. The night of the party started in an extremely civil manner, but soon descended into carnage! Upon docki...

So, we think its time for the next instalment of Rob amd JF's travels! We are currently in Sapa, Vietnam……, er no wait make that Kunming, China. Well the smarter of you will know that's a long way from our Thai adventure. We arrived on the beautiful island of Phuket and made a beeline straight for the beach of Patong. The beach here was one of the hardest hit by the boxing day tsunami of 2004 and it's amazing to see how the area has recovered. And how it ...

Sorry in advance for the photos being behind the highly outdated blog! Internet in S.E. Asia is painful - JF is literally about to use his crutch as a destructive weapon. No joke. Anyhow, upon arrival at the amazing Hutton Lodge (cheers Gavo) in Penang we headed straight for the beach, desperately in need of a good splash after two weeks of the humidity and chaffage of city dwelling! The bus journey took ages as it didn't go above 3rd gear (it was painful to w...

Right guys So we got the bus to Kuala Lumpur, where on arrival we were dropped off in the middle of a smoggy dual carriageway in rush hour. Immediately a friendly enough taxi driver offers to take us to our hotel in Chinatown for a princely sum of 30 ringgits (or 6 quid). Sounds good but we later found that he had overcharged us about 8 times, and taken us on a rather elaborate detour. Not only this but he didn't even drop us outside our place, instead choosing ...