Sunday 9th August 2009 We arrived in Penang at around 17.30pm and then waited for the local bus to take us to George Town where most of the sights of Penang are and where are accomadation was. After negotiating the local bus and finding our guesthouse be the time we had checked in it was around 7pm. After checking in we used the internet and while on facebook we realised that Gareth and Lex who we had previously travelled with in China and Vietnam where also in ...

Wednesday 5th August 2009, THAILAND TO MALAYSIA This morning was a super early morning as we were flying at 08:15am. So this meant getting a taxi from Patong (Puket) at 05:30 so then arriving at the airport at 06:15. After struggling once again with our pack safes, god there a nightmare, we eventually got checked in. Once through in departures I went and claimed back my tax from my camera (bought in Bangkok) and then we both had coffee and a donut whilst we ...

Sunday 2nd August 2009, Koh Tao - Koh Phi PhiThe journey from Koh Tao to Phi Phi was long but thankfully not too stressful!! We left Koh Tao at 9pm on the overnight ferry to Surat Thani. The bed situation was lots of thin matresses layed out with pillow after pillow under your specific number. It could have been very cosy but it wasn't full so a bit more room to spread out and so no worry of waking up being spooned. Thank god. It was surprisenly quite comfortable...

Sunday 26th July 2009 We arrived in Koh Tao at 09.30am and decided to go and check out Ban's diving resort as Suzie wanted to do her PADI diving qualification I wasn't too sure if I wanted to mine as I didn't really like it in Turkey when I tried it there. We arrived at Ban's and we both signed up for our Padi Suzie persuaded me to give it another go because we signed up for our Padi we got free accomadtion the room wasn't great and smelt some what but it was fr...

Friday 17th July 2009, Pattaya to Chiang Mai Well we left rauchy old Pattaya at about 9:30am thanks to Phil and Nid. The drive to Bangkok took just over an hour and a half and after a bit of hanging around Bangkok with Phil (Nid was at the embassy) we made it too the airport at about 2:30pm. Our flight was meant to be at 15:50 but was delayed by half an hour. So after grabbing some food we made our way to the departures lounge and waited a bit longer before boar...