Hi all, Quick update while we wait for the rain to stop...in Thailand is has a quick half hour shower most days, this one decided to start while we were on the beach - wes had factor 50 on after his last sunbathing/sunburning episode... Our hotel in Patong is really nice, we've decided to have at least 4 nights here, its quite a tourity town so you don't get the hasssle you do elsewhere. We ventured out for a few beers last night and what an eye opener that w...

Hi everyone, It's time for another episode.....today we travelled down to Pang Cawp (the very tip of Phuket). We decided to brave the local bus again which turns out to be nice - its like a big old school pick up!! (it has benches in the back with no seat belts and no door at the back - if the driver accelerates hard you can feel yourself slipping towards the road - but its all fun!!) MOT? what's that!!!! Anyway, we went to Pang Cawp to see the local aquarium ...

So we've just got back from our day out. It was really good. We started the day by getting picked up by a safari jeep looking thing. We were taken to a rural looking place just on the outside of Phuket where we waited a short while for everyone to turn up. First part of the day was a trek on the back of an elephant. We started by going upstream through a shallow brook and then up a steep bank (gem was very scared!) to a large field / wood - there was a track we f...

evening all! just a quick one tonight as it's been a bit of a travel heavy day and not too much to report... We left Bangkok this morning and flew internaly to Phuket, the flight was great, it cost 50 squid each and we got a small snack and drink along the way... bargain!!! - the flight only took an hour so we reached altitude and the started to head down ready for landing! we got outta the airport to catch a local bus into Phuket town - this was the cheapest w...

Hey everyone, We've just about to finish our Bangkok travels, so thought we'd update you.... Today we woke up with a list of plans for the day, we started by catching the sky train to the port in the hope of catching a river barge up to the Grand Palace. As we got off the train we were collered by a very well english spoken helpfull thai man. He seemed genuine and offered us a route to see some other attractions...conveniently a tuktuk wizzed past which he fla...