Leaving Chang Mai was a sad time as we knew that we were probably saying goodbye to Thailand forever. We had a great time but i feel that by the time of our childrens generation are travelling, Thailand will be one giant McDonalds, McIrish bar, Mcs***1990's music, McKavos and pretty much McNot much different to Malia. The demand from the West has taken the country to a new place, and the culture now feels like a country offering a museum display of what the count...

We have become accustomed to being picked up very late and walking for 15mintes to reach our bus pick up point, to then travel for over 12 hours, all of that is second nature, easy!!! But this bus journey was something else!!!! Mosquitoes flying all around, water from the Air Con dripping (like a water fall) onto you from above and the seats all broken so the supportive metal bars dig into your kidneys and back. Lucky we only had about 12 hours or we would ...

As expected, Bangkok was crazy crazy town!! As it always is!! We arrived at around 7am and found our way from the bus terminal to the taxi rank. It took us about 15minutes of staring with confused amazement, trying to work out the process of being allocated a taxi!! There seemed to be a wide 8 lane road with a little island dividing each one, a 'queue' of sorts( more like 65 separate queues) and a few people in orange jackets standing on the islands waving...

The only way is up!!! As they say. After our time to Legian, that must be true… Unless your next stop is Phuket….. We arrived back in Thailand, a much wetter and cooler climate than that of Bali. Quite refreshing and provided some relief from all the heat and sun we have been in for the last few weeks. It's a hard life. The bus we took from the airport took us to our Hostel, obviously stopping, quite shamefully at the side of a highway to drop us off a...

So our thinking was we would try out the hopefully quiter and more 'Balinese' Legian for our final two nights, instead of the other option of going back to Kuta again which is also near the airport.... This place was possibly the worst place we have both ever been too. And keeping in mind Katie spent a great deal of time in Malia when she was younger, you are probably getting an idea of quite how 'un-balinese' and horrendously 18-30s this place was... It was ne...