Monday 8 SeptemberRemember back in April when we were in Lewis Mountain, VA and had a go at horseriding for the first time? Well on Saturday, we upped the size and most definitely the height and went elephant trekking as part of a full-day Island Safari. Amazingly, for such a large animal, they are very graceful, once you get used to sitting so high up. During our trek our guide passed on words of encouragement to our mount and steered him with his feet, whils...

Friday 5 SeptemberSo here we are, at our last location, the Thai island of Ko Samui, just over an hour's flight away from Bangkok and it....is....heaven!! After arriving feeling very tired and worried about one of bags not having arrived with us (the one with all our bike gear in it!) we are now in fully chilled-out mode. Thanks to British Airways not thinking it was important for all our luggage to be with us on the same flight, the missing bag turned up three...