Back to Bangkok for the third time to go to the Vietnamese embassy to get our visa's and to catch a flight to Cambodia. We stayed last night in some hotel near the embassy and tonight we are staying at the Lebua State Tower from Hangover 2! This place is one of the poshest hotels in Bangkok and we rock up at 11am both dressed scruffily in Chang (Thai beer) t-shirts with our huge backpacks on basically looking like a couple of homeless alcoholics! We thought they ...

Thai cooking lessons! We were picked up from our hotel by our instructor for the day a crazy Thai lady called Sugar! Between you and me readers I think she'd been smoking more herbs than she had been cooking with. Our first stop was the food market which was a big warehouse full of stalls with every type of food imaginable. At one stall an old lady was standing tearing the skin off frogs in one fell swoop! She was getting through about one every 10 seconds and it...

We spent today on a tour of the surrounding areas of Kanchanaburi. I don't want to bore you (probably too late for that if you have read any earlier blog entries) but the area is noted for it's significance to the second world war as Japan built a railway from Kanchanaburi to Burma. This railway was used to transport supplies from Thailand to their front line in their Burma campaign. They used allied POW's to build the railway and because they were worked so hard...

The time has come to leave Koh Samui and the islands of Thailand behind! Writing this now(1 month later) I do miss them but at the time I was fine with leaving for one reason and one reason only........sand!!! I was just fed up of having sand everywhere! I swear there was more sand in our bed in the hotel in Chaweng than there was at the beach! It was like sleeping on sand paper. I just needed to look at a stretch of beach and there'd be sand between my toes and ...

Bo Phut was a bit dead so after our original hotel booking finished we moved to Chaweng in the south of the island as it was a bit more lively! We booked into our new hotel in the morning and thought this is a nice part of town but then when darkness fell it turned out we were in the red light district........jackpot! After checking in we hired a moped through the hotel. 'Do you want to see a driving license?' 'No, it's fine! Here are some helmets we prefer you w...