We woke up quite late today as we had to catch up on missed sleep! When we got up we had a look at the guidebook for quite a while to try and decide what to do as we didnt fancy hanging around Patong beach for very long! We eventually decided to go to Laem Singh beach, about 8km North of Patong as this was recommended in the free magazine on our flight yesterday. Having decided where we wanted to go we now had to decide how to get there, the problem is that th...

At 5am we very tiredly and grumpily checked in. The flight was on time though which was good and we got into Phuket at about 7:30am (1 1/2 hour flight). We got a minibus to our hotel in Phuket with a load of other people who got dropped off at their hotels on the way. It was all a bit scary as we had no idea what our hotel would be like. We were staying in the Aloha Villa hotel in Patong beach. When we saw our hotel we were very pleasantly surprised - it was...

Today we had another lazy day. Not much to report really. We had breakfast, went shopping and sent a parcel home with some souvenirs and stuff we don't need. We could really do with sending back half of my suitcase (Saz) as I didn't realise quite how many tops I had stuffed in oops! We met up with our intrepid group this afternoon who we will be travelling over to Cambodia and Vietnam with for the next 2 weeks, setting off tomorow at 6.30am. There are a total of ...

We were woken up this morning about 6am by the Frenchies and the guard wanting to put our beds away - Dave was not amused and looked like a grumpy old bear! We arrived at Bangkok station around 7am and headed towards the tuk tuks. However we were intercepted by a taxi driver who offered us 200 baht to take us to our hotel which we turned down saying we would only pay 80 which after a lot of haggling he reluctantly agreed to!! So nice to get back into air conditio...

Today was our last day in Chiang Mai. We checked out of our rooms at about 10am then went off to mill about for the day before getting the night train back to bangkok. We spent about 2 hours playing pool which was free if you bought a drink so we just bought 2 cokes and made them last! Dave is the pool king so kept on winning (thanks to Si for the practice!) except for when he potted the black haha! We got a taxi to the train about 4 pm (well a pick up truck) wit...