Kel: Getting to Koh Tao was a really funny experience. We took a train to Chumphon and stayed overnight at this backpacker place (for 3 GBP!!!) Chumphon is a stopover place for tourists really so we just enjoyed a quiet evening eating at a local cafe and wandering round the night market (amazing chicken - like KFC but better) We got up at 5am the next morning for our ferry crossing to Koh Tao. A truck picked us up along with a few others from other hotels. As yo...

MATT: We are on the beach.... Yeah...... Kel: So on 6th Dec we left Bangkok early morning and made it to one of the main bus stations. There were about 100 desks and loads of scam salesmen around but we managed to find the one company that went directly to the place we wanted to go. The place is halfway down the mainland between Bangkok and the main islands and we read about it in a thai travellers website travelfish.org It sounded ace - quiet, local getaway, n...

MATT: Back in Bangkok to celebrate the King's birthday. Kel: Wow - we're so lazy. After about two weeks after our tour we finally get round to updating our blog again! Yes we are still alive. We ended our tour at the delightful Bangkok, which was decidedly less scary this time. Our tour group dropped from 12 to 9 as 3 stayed behind at Siem Reap to fly home avoiding Bangkok altogether. However the others that were flying from there were pretty upbeat as things s...

Kel: Bangkok - eek! It's quite intimidating, hard to trust anyone, really dirty but will some smiley faces in between. So far we've met our tour group - a mix of nationalities but mostly twenty something girls, lucky Matthew - and have experienced a lovely river trip and a visit to Wat Po temple today. Off to get some food now and then off on an overnight train to Chaing Mai tonight. We're both looking forward to getting out of the city and into the country (but ...