So we arrived on Koh Phi Phi after spending just one horrifying night on Phuket! Oh my god, Phuket really truly is an awful place.....all tacky shops, yobs and dirty old men sitting with Thai girls drapped all over them. Even the beach was rubbish because a massive Club Med resort took up almost the entire beachfront so the only way to get onto the beach was via a concrete walkway alongside an open sewer!! After Lanta, we were almost in tears. Added to this was...

A belated very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.......! We had a wonderful xmas holiday with Michelle and Sam on an amazing Thai island in the middle of the Andaman Sea called Ko Lanta...lots of sun, sea, bbq fish and cocktail buckets of lethal local whiskey....Effects included dancing on bars with men in socks, drunken phonecalls, kissing strange men (Michelle) and naughty night-time nudie swimming!! We partied a lot at the Ozone Bar, Bubble Ju...

Arrived in Cambodia after a mammoth boat journey across the border. Cambodia is much flatter countryside compared to Vietnam and much much hotter! It is also the poorest country we have travelled to on our trip so far, with lots of kids begging and selling stuff, which is quite hard to see. But at the same time Phnom Phen is a really friendly place and everyone says hello and waves. On saturday we went to a proper Hugh Heffner style pool party in a beautiful ho...

Settled into our hotel in Saigon in the backpacker quarter amongst all the tour shops and bars....back to a city where you play real life Frogger every time you cross the road. Had a great plan to pay for everyones Xmas "goodies" with a night at the Casino, so put on our best beach shorts and headed out, had momentary glory 80 dollars up after some beginners luck, but it didn't last...consoled ourselves at the Saigon Saigon bar on the roof. Two he...

Finally arrived in Nha Trang after the slowest train journey ever....supposed to get in at 9pm, instead we arrived at 3am. Nha Trang is a beach resort place with lots of bars and clubs so we partied for a few days and got drunk at the rather posh Sailing Club. Went on the obligatory booze cruise which involved dancing on the boat to the sounds of the local 'boy band' and drinking shots of rice wine served from the floating bar. All very fun and not all ...