Our time in Byron Bay was a blur of meeting people, partying and surfing. We arrived, armed with our new tent and looked for the cheapest camping site we could find. 'First Sun' would be our home for the next 6 days and just hours after pitching the tent we were in the sea taking the first of our surfing lessons with Terry and the rest of the 'Kool Katz' team. Terry, the founder of the surf school was a brilliant laugh - bringing out all the clichés about Engl...

What a difference an 8 hour plane journey makes. We arrived in Sydney at 6.30am local time, which was a little disorientating after no sleep, and headed out into the streets in search of a place to dump our stuff. First impressions were that it felt similar to New York with simple things like buying a bus ticket and navigating around the streets a lot easier than in Thailand! Sydney struck us as very clean early on as we walked through high rise buildings and gre...

We left Cambodia on the ropey roads we had arrived on and after giving our remaining ‘riel’ to a number of begging children, who enjoyed playing with our cameras, bags and beads while we waited for our bus, we looked to head north to Chiang Mai. A brief one night stop in Bangkok allowed us to take in the capital city for a third time and armed with a bit more traveling experience, we enjoyed it a lot more the second time round by watching the days football in...

So after the beauties of Ko Tao we though we’d try our hand at something slightly more cultural. So as most of you know, we set off for Siem Reap, Cambodia. Following the boat ride from Ko Tao we took the bus to Bangkok, later that day we caught another bus which would take us into Cambodia. My god. What a journey, I will never ever complain about traveling in Britain again. Thailand was fine but 10 miles into Cambodia the tarmac disappeared and we were crawlin...

So we arrived in Ko Tao and everyone from the Full Moon seemed to have the same idea as us as every guesthouse seemed to be full. We eventually found one right at the end of the beach which overlooked the see, it was pretty dreamy. So after Phangan Ko Tao was just what the doctor ordered, every bar on the beach front had cushions to lounge on and watch the sun set. It was so chilled out after the madness that had preceded it. But after a couple of days lazing ...