"Protesters have seized Bangkok International airport in their effort to unseat the government."

To say it was a disaster would have been an understatement. The political unrest within Thailand has been something that Rachel and I have been keeping a watchful eye on over the last couple of months, but neither of us quite expected this to happen. With tourists trapped in Bangkok and the airport shut we had no chance of starting our trip on Thursday. However being the eternal optimists we still held that slight bit of hope when we woke at 3am on the 27th to travel to Heathrow that we may just fly. Although hopes were soon dashed when radio 2 news stated that protesters had then seized Bangkok's second airport. "That's when we knew that we were not going anywhere" as the day progressed Gulf Air had already made plans for us and advised us to re-book for Tuesday, with options thin and news scarce we agreed and traveled back home. Tired and weary the day passed with little conversation as we tried to recover from our form of jet lag called, (stress lag).

Two days on, I'm sitting here with news that Thai authorities have failed in their attempts to remove protesters. So I'm still in the UK with little hope of even traveling on Tuesday and then... "Sky news, breaking news... Thai authorities state that Bangkok's main international airport, Suvarnabhumi, will remain closed at least until Monday evening as the anti-government protesters refuse to leave the premises". The words uttered from mine and Rachel's mouths were slightly ruder but in the politest way possible we thought "Balls to this". We got straight on the phone and made the decision to fly to Kuala Lumpur. Although this completely hinders our plans to see the many of the wonders of Thailand, we're going. Plans are still sketchy but we will fly in to Krabi in Thailand on Wednesday with every intention to make our way to Chiang Mai, avoiding Bangkok at all costs.

Now we feel satisfied that our trip may finally begin, we're all packed and ready to go and in the short term it costs us a couple hundred quid to start the trip we have waited so long for so were smiling. In hindsight we feel lucky we're not in places like Mumbai like some people and know that our little problem is no where near that of the people of India so our thoughts, like many are with them and their families.