Well all good things come to an end, and I am sat at Bangkok airport waiting for the flight home. The day started early as we had our last tour to the floating markets. It was 110km out of Bangkok and the traffic here is unbelievable. We turned out of the hotel and into the path of 2 lanes of oncoming traffic. Apparently it's quite normal. Driving in Bangkok is very scary, it's every man for himself, weaving is the way to go. Everything over here is chaotic. ...

We were awake early this morning as there is a 3 hour difference between here and Aussie. This hotel has a free breakfast, so the Sharps were down there early! An excellent buffet breakfast, already planning what we are going to have tomorrow. We had a temples and City tour booked which started off at 8.00am. For some reason this was a private tour, so we had a dedicated driver and a tour guide (think Gok Wan Thai Style) to ourselves. He was brilliant and loo...

Quite a day really. We woke up early to another cloudless sky and decided to have our breakfast at the airport. I went down to the lobby with Pete early to try and access the Internet when the minibus came to take us to the airport. Catherine was still drying her hair but appeared at that moment. We arrived at the airport at 9.10am and went to check the departures, to our horror we discovered they had brought the flight forward by 3 hours and it was leaving a...

Aghhh! It's our last day in Australia. This morning we were all up early and Catherine left first to meet her travelling companions for the last time before they all flew out. Pete and I had booked on the Bonza Bike Tour. A guided bike tour of Sydney. It was brilliant, there were 12 people on the tour 4 from Canada, 2 Switzerland, 2 Germany, 2 UK, and 2 Australia. The guide was very good and informative, he also gave us plenty of breaks, which was good becau...

Oh my goodness I don't know how we have done it, but we have had another cloudless day. Today we walked to Circular Quay and caught a ferry to Manly Beach. We decided that as we have a bike ride tomorrow we should do a bit of training. We found a rental shop that was doing a good deal and rented a couple of bikes, initially for 2 hours, 4 hours later we returned them. Following a map we tried to follow a path around the coast - unfortunately no bikes were allo...