f*** it, let's get a bucket...Koh Samui and Koh Phangan Next stop was Koh Samui which meant another 2 hours on the rough Thailand seas. We have decided that the only way to beat sea sickness is to sleep, even if this does pose a high risk of being seen sleeping mouth open and/or dribbling on public transport (again). I guess it's better than throwing up on public transport (again Lodge). Samui is lovely again, but larger and much more built up that Koh Tao. Whi...

Diving School Dropouts.....Koh Tao So it turned out that scuba diving wasn't for us. In fact, by the afternoon of day one we were sitting on the beach with a beer having left the course!! Having spent 24 hours on two trains, three tuk-tuks, a taxi, a van (which looked more suited to carrying cattle), a pick-up truck and the choppiest boat ride we've ever been on, we finally made it from Chiang Mai in the north to Koh Tao, our first stop of six islands in the so...

..Who Said You Can't Trek in Flip Flops- Chiang Mai Fifteen hours on a train obviously did something strange to us as upon arrival in Chiang Mai we visited a temple. Chaing Mai turned out to be a city of crazy times and things we never thought we'd do... Crazy time number one was we actually walked, map in hand and searched out a place of religios worship. Not just walked past, we actually went inside and had a proper look around. Talk about cultural - and y...

And So The Adventure Begins.... Bangkok. First lesson we learned in Thailand was that getting through passport control takes almost as long as the flight from London..and is far less comfortable. While some people had orderly queueing issues, others had sever personal space issues but after almost three hours we made it through, found our bags and headed out to find a cab. Second lesson we learned in Thailand was the rules of the road were pretty much non exsis...