7th February 2004 Arrived in Butterworth very confused - we have no lonley planet for Malaysia so we had literally no idea where to go! We obviously looked a little like damsels in distress as i nice man suggested we get the ferry to penang and told us the name of the backpacker area - all good and thats what we did! Can we just say that there is NOTHING to do in Panang at all. We had a wander round, got some food and ended up chatting to the English ...

4th February 2004 Em spent the night throwing up from food poisoning/too much sun so that was pretty horrendous, had pretty much no sleep, so didn\'t exactly do too much, we managed to get out for 3 hours, but found the heat far to much and headed back our guesthouse and consequently fell asleep until 10pm, when we were hungry and went downstairs and requested Cornflakes for dinner, then back to bed! 5th Febraury 2004 Em\'s Birthday!!! We went to ...

22nd January 2004 It was on to Ko Pha Ngan, after the night train we got on a coach for 2 hours, a ferry for 2 1/2 hours, taxi and finally a tail boat. Boy were we glad to get there! We got a little hut for a couple of quid between a night. Headed down to the beach and ate at a fantastic restaurant! Had our first experience of the shower...each time you went in there you were wondering what sort of creepie crawly you would see! There was a pervy frog that wa...

16th January 2004 Today we got up at a wapping 5.30am!! Goddam! We decided that we would go an see the Chinese doing Thai Chi and Yoga in Lumphini Park which is quite a way out of central Bangkok and they get up really early to do this!! So we got to the park at 7 and watched the sunrise which was beautiful! This park was amazing, not just a slab of grass it had a huge lake in the middle and trees all round and little footbridges and pathways. There wer...

13 January 2004 Arrived late afternoon and had to battle through the traffic with a bus full of other backpackers to Khao San Road - nobody was quite sure where to get off so it was complete guess work and follow the person in front! FINALLY got to our hotel once we had semi figured out the map with an Aussie called Anna. We dumped our stuff and headed straight to Khao San Road for some Thai food and some local thai beer 'Sanghi' which we have developed qu...