After a fairly rainy start to our island adventures we decided to move on and try our luck on the much smaller island of Ko Tao about a 2 hour boat ride from Ko Samui. We had no accommodation booked so on arrival the priority was to find somewhere cheap and comfortable to stay. We headed to Sairee beach and started making enquiries at some of the resorts on the beach. Much to our horror the cheapest quotes we were getting were 3x our allowance and after visitin...

We are finally down to our last 3 weeks and where better to see out the final days of our trip than the beautiful islands of southern thailand. Our first stop was Ko Samui the most popular of all the islands. Ko Samui gets a very negative write up by most travel writers as being the blackpool of Thailand where all the package holiday makers flock to. We arrived with an open mind ready to formulate our own opinion of the island. We got a mini bus taxi from the har...

After another successful overnight train journey back to Bangkok it was straight in a taxi across town to the bus station to catch a bus north to Kanchanaburi. The journey took about 3 hours on a local bus where we were the entertainment being the only white people on the bus. We had been given a recommendation of a nice place to stay in town which made battling the touts even easier and after some hard core haggling that would make my brother proud we got a pick...

The overnight train to Chiang Mai was an absolute dream we boarded the train at 7.30pm and had seats opposite each other for about the first 90 minutes of the journey before one of the staff came to transform our seats effortlessly into bunk beds complete with fresh sheets, pillow and blanket. We both stayed in the bottom bunk until bed time before I took to the top and got myself settled in for the night. Not expecting to sleep at all with all the noise, stopp...

Our arrival in Bangkok was extremely sedate and certainly not the crazy reception we had been warned to expect. Managing to get straight off the plane and through immigration without even a sniff of a tout. We had one night and day in Bangkok before catching a night train north. Khao San Road aka backpacker mecca is the area of town where you can find budget accommodation so that is where we were headed. We didn't have anywhere booked however as soon as we got ...