Whilst Sam slept well, I drifted in & out of an uncomfortable sleep, waking to either a stiff neck or dead wrist from leaning on it for too long. A subconscious reminder that I was supposed to do something before we left Sukhothai played on my thoughts & funnily, it was the pack of waiting taxi drivers that provoked the thought whilst unloading our bags from the bus, in the sweltering afternoon heat - the mobile phone. I was supposed to charge the mobile phone so we could call Dean to get picked up & taken to TK’s, eliminating the need to speak to, or deal with any of the taxi drivers. Luckily my memory served me well enough to remember how much Dean had paid for his taxi to TK’s & so knowing that it ... read more

Kanchanaburi We left Bangkok's southern bus terminal heading west, bound for Kanchanaburi. It was a comfortable journey & only took around 4 hours, arriving into Kanchanaburi just after 3 o'clock. As Kieran & Kate had already been to Kanchanaburi, they recommended The Jolly Frog, a backpackers resort where they had stayed. So as soon as we unloaded our bags from the bus, we started walking over to the gang of eagerly awaiting taxi drivers, before being greeted by one of them who broke from the gang & ran over to us. Flapping about in his hand was a knackered old business card for The Jolly Frog, so as fate would have it, we decided The Jolly Frog was our destination of choice, or fate. Ten minutes after loading our bags into the battered old taxi, we ... read more

Ko Phayam The journey from Phuket to Ko Phayam would prove to be a fairly easy one - a bus from Karon to Phuket Town & then a connecting bus from Phuket to Ranong, where we would then get a speed boat to the small & tranquil island of Ko Phayam. The bus from Phuket to Ranong took 6 hours, with one stop off at a smaller, official bus station, where we grabbed some cheap & not so nice food. Stretched legs & refreshments out of the way, we carried on the journey to Ranong, finally arriving at Ranong bus station at 16:00, where we were greeted & picked up by the owner of Vijit’s - the resort we had pre-booked to stay at. We somehow managed to tactically pile all 7 of our back packs ... read more

Ko Phi Phi Don We arrived at Ko Phi Phi later on in morning & was welcomed with the usual mayhem that we were all now accustomed to. Thankfully waiting for us at the pier was Kieran & Barry who had gone straight to Phi Phi from Railey. Phi Phi has no roads, just walk ways to get around, so Barry & Kieran had arranged for a taxi man from their resort to come a meet us & taxi our baggage as it was about a 10 minute walk from the pier to the Tropical Garden Resort. As there are no roads, the taxi was in fact a guy pushing what can best be described as a big wheel barrow. As we weaved our way through the busy & hot walk ways of Phi Phi, we ... read more

After our wild partying on Ko Pha-Ngan, we decided that we would head for the beautiful & scenic, Railay - just 45 minutes in a long tail boat, from the main land Krabi. But before we could get to Railay, we had some more travelling to do, this time in the form of boat & bus. Also another reason we needed to leave Ko Pha-Ngan was because a storm had hit the island, which now seems to be a regular weather pattern following the full moon. The storm brought endless spells of rain along with rough sea's - just what we needed before we left. However, thankfully & unknowingly we had booked our boat ticket for one of the bigger boats, which meant we were one-of-two boats able to leave the island as all the other ... read more