One final stop on our trip before the long flight home, and back to reality, whatever that might mean. Work on Monday? (Actually, for Andrew, that's a genuine question - on arrival in Bangkok, still no job confirmed). Wearing shoes rather than sandals? HOW MUCH FOR A BEER? We'd tried to treat ourselves to a nice hotel, staying in the same place as the last time we'd been in Bangkok, but it turned out to be a bit rubbish. They put us in a tiny, naffly-decorated r...

Boy oh boy, we love it here. We've come back to Sensi Paradise resort, Ko Tao, the location of our first ever holiday as a couple a few years ago. It was wonderful then, so it seemed a good idea to spend the last week or so of our honeymoon somewhere we could rely on. And somewhere rather more swanky than places we've been staying recently... We arrived with some worries- in the three year interim, would Ko Tao have become over-developed and would Sensi Paradise...

We stayed at the perfectly fine Ban Don hotel, and treated ourselves to an air con room, for 450 bahts, after the sultry forest nights. This hotel was recommended in guide books because, unlike many other hotels of this city, you won't be disturbed by other guests *ahem* taking advantage of 'by the hour' rates! There was a good (and cheap!) internet cafe on the lane at the side ofhe hotel, so spent our time updating earlier posts of this blog of course. The most...

Well it's certainly not the beach, and that's what we wanted - a total change after Ko Lanta and before Koh Tao. It is possibly the world's oldest rain forest at the centre of which is a man made reservoir, only 28 years old. We spent most of our first day travelling there from Ko Lanta: mini van plus two ferries to Krabi, then another mini van to - unexpectedly - a "bus station" full of bemused travellers who weren't told they were going there either or were an...

Yup, we went to Malaysia for lunch. Actually, no, we didn't even stay for lunch - we had a Pot Noodle-thing in the minibus on the way home. We went to Malaysia to get a stamp in our passport... and then immediately re-renter Thailand with a fresh 15-day permit to stay in the country. It's totally legal, and totally ridiculous. We spent over twelve hours in a minibus and spent less than a minute outside Thailand. We had to do this because on arrival in Thailan...