Happy New Year! Well - where to start?!?! Last night was possibly one of the most surreal nights I have EVER had!! The day started off with a little shopping trip to Haad Rin - having missed the January sales I was desperate for some retail therapy! Cath and I hailed a passing tuk tuk and hung on for dear life as we rode the 20 minute Thunder Mountain ride to Haad Rin. It's one of the main towns on the island and absolutely packed with travellers (some of...

Hello all and greetings from Thailand! I managed to arrive safe and sound, if rather hot and bothered from 36 hours of travelling! The journey was eventful to say the least - my hotel in Bangkok was filled to the brim with tourists who had been evacuated from Phi Phi and Phuket, most of them injured in some way and all obviously traumatised. Needless to say that I didn't have a good nights sleep, but compared to what those poor people had been through I count my...