After a day of wasting time in Chumpuon, well actually finally getting our blog up to date! and drinking some poor lady out of coffee we finally board our train to Butterworth, mainland Malaysia just outside of Penang. We have sleeper beds sadly top deck, the bottom ones were twice the size and only about 1 pound more expensive so get booked up quickly. We were very envious of the people below us! After a comfortable night but not much sleep as the main cabin l...

Koh Tao, our home for Christmas and New Year, which means we're here for 2 weeks, so a pretty long blog entry I'm afraid! By now, we're completely travelled out, having covered off Northern and an island in Southern Thailand, Laos and even Burma in the last couple of weeks all over land/sea, so we're looking forward to just settling down and actually unpacking our backpacks for a while. We arrive at Buddha View, our dive school (which was recommended by Carrie's...

I couldn't pass up the opportunity to have Burma as an entry on our blog, so sadly you guys have to endure a short story about our visa run - which was actually pretty easy and uneventful so I'll keep it brief! After a ferry ride from Ko Phi Phi, which I don't recomend with a hangover, we find a local bus to Ranong that leaves in 1/2 hour and manage to sleep for the rest of the day on the bus. At the other end we find a guesthouse called Kiwi that is right near ...

Ko Phi Phi a gorgeous island sadly devastated by the Tsunami but being rebuilt at a rate of knots there is building work going on everywhere, there are no cars and you can walk everywhere on the island in about 30 mins. A torqouise blue sea, limestone karsts and just around the corner from the location of "the beach" film we are very happy to have arrived in paradise! Sadly due to it being so nice accomodation doesn't come cheap and we end up staying a...

We arrive in Bangkok at 5am with every intention to have a little sleep, do a bit of shopping then head straight to our next destination, well that was until we bumped into the boys from the bus (it really is a small world). As it was the last night of their travels, we couldn't possibly leave without saying a proper goodbye so we checked in to a hotel and had a few drinks. 2 of the boys live in Canada and the other 3 in England so there were lots of man tears as...