Greetings from Koh Phangan. This will be a short post as we only spent a few days here. Koh Phangan is a much bigger island than we expected and the roads are crazy we cpuldnt believe the mopeds make it up the hills as they are literally vertical at many points. The few taxi rides we took...and when we say taxi we mean a pickup van with a bench in the outer back and no back door. So you can imagine us clinging on to the van for dear life as we were flying up and ...

Sawadikaaa!! That means hello (the only thai we seem to know) from the Thai Islands!! First stop was Krabi which isnt actually an island but its the mainland beach that leads to some of the islands...Krabi is a very small but nice fishing village, we only spent two days here and one of which we headed to Ao Nang a nearby beach and spent the day soaking up the sun. I decided to go for a walk down the beach and found a family of monkeys near the rocks...i then got ...

Hi all, Given that Chiang Mai is a popular area to trek we decided this was a must do. After some debating we went for 3 days and 2 nights as it was only £5 for the extra day and it was definitley a good move as the whole trip was amazing and exhausting :-P On the first day we got picked up and joined the 6 other people in our group (4 polish,1 japanese and 1 czech) so it was quite a mixed group but we all had a laugh...luckily for us they could all speqk very...

Helllooooo. We are writing this from our guesthouse in chiang mai. We have loved chiang mai its a really nice place, a lot less hectic than bangkok and the people are friendly and chillied out. The weather is much nicer than bangkok the majority of the time its.been between 25-30 however its starting to get hotter now!! So we began our journey to chiang mai on the sleeper train, it wa a 15 hour journey but wa suprisingly ok cos we both had a bed and managed to...

Greetings from Bangkok!! Well where do we start..after a mammoth 2 flight journey Bangkok was a shock to the system to say the least. Its alot bigger than we expected and a mismatch between extremeley poor and rundown areas and some modern buildings. We arrived at our hostel after an hour and a half taxi ride as the traffic is crazy and no sleep to find we couldnt check in til the afternoon so we had no choice to explore which was probably a good thing to reduc...