Yesterday was eventful. We left our guesthouse at 6:45am, got a taxi for 3 hours over the worst roads in the history of the world, ever with a maniacal driver with a death wish. He was clearly harbouring an unfulfilled childhood aspiration to become a rally car driver and had eventually settled on the next best thing-terrorising tourists at high speeds on severely potholed "roads". He overtook anything and everything, thumping his horn for all he was worth (most ...

Argh life!! This last 24 hours has been absolutely crazy... Getting used to being back in Thailand and trying to run around like crazy people sorting out last minute souvenirs, organising transport to the airport and getting our head around the fact that we're flying to Sri Lanka for 2 weeks. As if that wasn't enough we still couldn't get hold of my elusive uncle. We tried to hunt him down at work where we were informed that my oh-so-reliable uncle had gone ...

You'll never guess where we are! Well, actually you might if you had the foresight to look at the little interactive map thingummy on the homepage but anyway we're back in beautiful Bangkok... The last coupla days have pretty much been a nightmare. We've been desperately trying to change our flights to Sri Lanka but to no avail. Everything that could go wrong has. We've had phone lines down, internet down, closed office hours, unreturned emails, workers on l...

Oops. Just realised we officially left England 5 days ago and I haven't actually got round to letting any of you know we survived the flights. Well, obviously we did and we're now staying in Bangkok at my Uncle's apartment. We're having a good time so far and just about getting over the jetlag, still a little disorientated... Ok, well, I'll start at the beginning (usually a good idea). The National Express coach to Heathrow was uneventful, had a brief snooz...