After an eventful journey we eventually made it to Surin Beach, which was evidently not equipped for backpackers. It proved a little difficult to find accommodation that was within our budget, but we managed to find something suitable which included a baby bed for baby Brown. Catch up cocktails on the beach and much to our delight the beach was stunning, an all encompassing bay, white sand and barrel top surf. The following day we caught some rays and had relaxin...

A quick change in Phuket we were straight on a bus up the coast to Khao Lak. Cheap accommodation at seaweed hostel sorted we only had one thing to do, booking our much anticipated dive trip!!!! After sensibly asking around we knew that Silvan at Khao Lak Explorer had the trip for us. 4 days, 4 nights live aboard and 3 dive courses between us, we were giddily buzzing with anticipation all evening. There was no messing around, the same night Martin watched 3 hours ...

After a long wait in the airport and a fairly luxurious bus journey we arrived in the bus station. Conveniently located a few k out of the main town, our only option was to get a tuk tuk. Found a cheap guesthouse built right on the sea, literally. As if Hua Hin had got too big for its boots and the only way was to build into the sea, like a collection of built up piers. It made for a loud wake up call. The following morning we walked the whole stretch of the bea...

I believe by now we may have visited Khao San Rd more than Oxford St and we were not keen on making it home any longer than necessary. An early start saw us join the fairly extensive queue of would be travellers outside the Myanmar Embassy, luckily a relatively painful process we ticked all the boxes and headed back to town to occupy ourselves before a 3pm visa collection. With some local advise we jumped on a rather fun but extremely overcrowded BK river boat an...

A pleasant bike over the tumbling hilltop beach front roads landed us in White Sand Beach, our intention was to get a visa run to BK organised for Myanmar. As luck would have it this was not possible and we left the beach knowing that our island fun was to be cut short by a necessary trip to BK, a Monday flight meant a Thursday departure #devastated. Not to be deterred we ploughed onwards to long beach, a journey of some effort we took the bikes very off-road and...