After a hectic schedule in Bangkok we all needed time and space to relax a bit after all that ping pong! - So me Rami, Anne and Hazel said goodbye to Chai, Frauke, Katharina, Ben and Jo and headed south on the twelve hour train and our first stop was Kao Sok national park in Surat Thani. We stayed again in little wooden huts on stilts, although these were slightly better than the ones in the northern villages and provided a little more luxury - we actually had to...

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! I mean ... Here's me gettin hassled left right and centre by all the local tuk-tuk drivers and little old women tryin to sell these s***e wooden frogs and bracelets and s*** -I thought 'ok' I'll do these lads a favour and take them up on their offer to take me and my friends to the 'PING PONG' show! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! The dirty pigs! I mean, really - the dirty pigs! - If I want my bottle opening I'll use a bottle opene...

After twelve hours on a rickety train from Bangkok in a carriage next to the 'Happy room' and the 'Disco' carriage, you'd think we would have a few days to relax and enjoy the Buddhist temples in the northern city of Chiang Mai. WOAH NO!!!! Non stop action! Get In! It's been absolutely excellent! Before we left to board the train though, we (two German girls, a British couple, an American and a British woman and me) had a day to ...

'HEEAAYYYY MONA! OOOOOHHHH MONA! Craig McCloughlin - Get In! He's an Aussie and he kept us entertained on our long journeys up the east coast of Oz in our camper along with other not so successful artists from the 1990s. Me and Alex were fed up of the s***e radio - when we could get a signal - that we decided we'd try and find some tapes. So for the last few weeks, as well as our 'best of the 1990s' tape we've been beltin out good old Bon ...

'We are sailing, we are sailing!' Well we were! We've just finished! Before we left Noosa for our sailing trip we went kayaking on the river. I tell thi what, that rowin takes it out of you! Good work-out though I've got arms like popeye after he's had his plate of the good stuff! It wa funny though cos on the morning of us going kayaking, me and Alex weren't talking to each other and as we were paddling down the river we exchanged the odd...