How lucky are we? This is hard to believe but it is absolutely true. We set out this morning to buy camera number 3. [We sent our old camera for repair in the Uk but, as it hadn't arrived back the day we were due to leave, we went and bought camera number 2. Whilst Dave was setting camera number 2 up, camera number 1 was delivered by courier, these were the two cameras I inadvertently left behind!] Resenting the fact we had 2 cameras at home but would have to...

Well here we are, we made it! We had two superb flights, the first leg was to Muscat Oman and what an interesting place to fly to. We left Heathrow in the dark and, as we were getting closer to Oman, we could see the sun rising on the horizon, a beautiful sight. Within a very short time it was day light and we were flying over miles and miles of desert which stretched as far as the eye could see. The vastness of the desert was broken here and there with what a...

The journey from Koh Pha-ngan to Bangkok was splendid. The first leg consisted of four hours aboard a large catamaran, sailing under blue skies, passing pretty islands, the odd boat and very little else. When we arrived at the port of Chumphon we made our way along the long rickety wooden pier with the lovely name of Thungmakhamnoi . [We were, once again, glad of our back packs; it would have been hard work wheeling a suitcase along the pier, see photos] We wai...

We had an hour sawngthaew taxi trip booked to our next destination, Hat Rin, located in the south of the Island of Ko Pha-Ngnan. In fact, the driver drove like a maniac over the bumpy concrete roads and we arrived in just under half an hour with our innards in our laps. We gave him the name of a guest house we had seen advertised in the lonely planet; he shook his head and said 'I take you somewhere better, velly cheap'. Ok, that sounded like a good idea and he...

Paradise, we're in paradise, but it was one hell of a journey getting here!!!! 7.40 sitting outside our hotel in Phuket waiting for our mini bus. 8.40 mini bus arrives an hour late. Grinning driver says '14 peoples', we didn't have a clue what he was on about, there were only the 2 of us so we climbed aboard and took 2 comfy seats with plenty of leg room for Dave. We stopped along the way to pick up 2 nice guys, one from Sweden, one from Germany and off we we...