When Ray and I first talked about going travelling, he told me that once I'd experienced the magic and beauty of this world that it would get right under my skin and the wanderlust for adventure would never leave me. He was right. I returned home in 2013 with my eyes open and horizons well and truly broadened. I wouldn't shut up about my adventures and the things I'd seen. Eventually I regaled anyone and anything that had eyes and ears with my travel tales of...

PUT A PIN IN THE MAP!! Ray and I packed our rucksacks once again, had our last breakfast of freshly picked mango on the beach, said goodbye to our tent and Geoff and caught a moped taxi back to the port. We hopped on a slow boat back to Ranong and then a night bus back to Bangkok. We arrived back at about 5 am in the morning and trudged up and down the Kao San road looking for cheap accommodation and finally found a small hostel who were seriously cashing in o...

Rice to see you...to see you...err..Rice!!! Most nights we ended up at Thomo's bar where a small band of musicians who were unknown to each other had come to the island to get away from it all had created a band. Thomo advertised every night as an open mike night but it was mostly these guys who 'headlined'. We sat on bean bags, candles all around in the still warm Thai evenings listening to these guys playing together, mainly JJ Kale stuff well into the nigh...

Tent Sauna, Benny Hill and Battered Guitars Ray and I had every intention of finishing our trip in Laos and flying back to blighty from Bangkok but the Thai visa system scuppered that plan. The problem we discovered was that travelling back through Laos and down the Mekong River then over land and across the border into Thailand would only have given us 14 days on our visa but flying into Thailand would give us a month. So we made the decision to miss Laos and...

CHUC MUNG NAM MOI OR COCKA DOODLE DONT ! We arrived in Hanoi just as the Vietnamese/Chinese New Year celebrations were taking shape. The shabby streets were being decorated and adorned with balloons and bunting and signs reading Chúc mừng năm mới were everywhere. The crazy moped chaos and millions of people continued to buzz about in this city and while we were looking over the balcony of a restaurant at lunch time, we actually witnessed a lady, lade...