For once we had pre booked our hotel as our flight would land late afternoon and we only had three days, in which to cover Singapore off before we were on our way again. Trains ran from the lower level of the airport and turned out to be fast and on time which was a welcome change, so it didn’t take us long to get to our hotel as it was less than a five minute walk from a nearby station. Scratch the surface of Singapore and you will uncover a treasure trove of...

Because we were a bit tired of buses but didn’t fancy paying the high flight prices we had taken a new option and got the train back to Bangkok from the south. This turned out to be a bit of a disaster, as the windows didn’t shut properly so we awoke covered in a variety of little creatures. The train must have been a hundred years old by the look of it inside and it sounded it too which didn’t much help for sleep and to top it off first thing in the mornin...

Railey is a peninsular in the south of Thailand, that turns into an island when the tide covers the connecting rock path that join its to the mainland. Having approached it by boat from Ko Phi Phi we landed on the mangrove side of the island. Which meant that jumping out of the boat our feet landed in muddy swamp water! With the rain pouring we took the advice of a guy we chatted to on the boat and checked in to a nearby resort, but that only lasted one night as...

Krabi town when we arrived was a sleepy place, a ten minute walk put us anywhere in the town we wanted to be. Set in the south west of Thailand, Krabi had been the obvious choice for a launch point from which we could reach the Indian ocean islands. An overnight stop in the town was sufficient for us to have experienced the nothingness, so the next day we took a bus then boat to reach the island of ‘Ko Phi Phi’. An Island made famous for two reasons, one of...

August 19th 2009, package received and operation culture shock was under way. Your forgiven for thinking that you are reading ‘Mission Impossible’, that would be because you are! We had returned to Thailand from Cambodia and gotten back to Bangkok, a day after we had arrived we were back at the airport once again. This time we weren’t leaving, we were collecting! Yes that’s right we had a visitor coming to see us for three whole weeks, who you may ask? W...