Julian and Sarah

Hello all After leaving Kho Phangan we had to do a visa run to Malaysia which gave us another 15 days in Thailand. On returning from Kun Don (border of Thailand and Malaysia) we caught a bus to Krabi where we stayed for the night, a perfect stop over as it had a food market and lots of cheap hostels. The following morning we took a 45 minute long tail boat to Railey beach, although it's mainland Thailand there are no roads to get there which meant no motorbikes or cars when we arrived. Bonus!! Off the boat, we found a cheap place to stay as everywhere had reduced it's prices as it was low season!! Woo hoo!! There were troops of monkeys everywhere in Railey and I made the mistake of feeding one outside of ... read more

Hello all, We headed for Vang Vieng, an 8 hour bus journey, the views were good and although we'd heard stories about buses breaking down, accidents etc on the bumpy roads. We were okay and arrived safely after having slept the majority of it. The town was small and it didn't take long for us to find accommodation. After dumping our bags, we headed straight out and came across a row of bars playing nothing but re-runs of TV shows, namely, 'Friends' 'South Park' and 'Family Guy. We sat down and watched some South Park whilst we ordered and ate food. Later on, we found another bar and after ordering a drink we were offered some river weed as a salty dry snack. We couldn't resist especially after seeing a lady fishing for it during our ... read more

Hello everone, Here's a bunch of pics of our time leading up to the New Year Water Festival. We had a brilliant two weeks before the festival, some of the time spent on a road trip which we will post a blog for soon. The water festival was absolutely crazy. I felt a bit nervous at first, but it wasn't long before the mask was down and I was squirting innocent people in the face! Before the festival we did another cooking course, which involved eating to the point of bursting!! A great day!! We also went to a Muai Thai boxing night. There were 8 fights in total, both men and women and a special fight which definately was special! 6 blindfolded men entered the ring and they had to fight eachother. Quite a few ... read more

Hello all, Hope this finds you well. We're writing this blog from memory (slightly blurred) as we left Cambodia a few weeks ago. We crossed the border into Cambodia from Vietnam and headed to Sinoukville. Sinoukville is a beach party town, very busy with tourists. We struggled to find accomodation as it was so busy and everywhere seemed really expensive due to it being peak season. All of the guesthouses were full so we were forced to stay in a hotel complete with swimming pool.. We bumped into Cat, a girl we met in Vietnam 3 weeks previous and spent the following few days chilling out, eating, drinking and more realxing. Generally not doing a great deal :0) After all that down time we caught a bus to Phnom Penn where we stayed with a friend ... read more

Hello all, So we arrived in Vietnam safe and sound. What a difference from the Phillipines!! The weather in Hanoi was terrible, very cold and grey. We were really not prepared for that type of weather after having spent the last 7 weeks in vests and shorts! Locals were dressed for winter so we layered up what clothes we had and went exploring. First impressions were good although the traffic was mental. Trying to cross the road was difficult to say the least, there are not many cars to look out for but instead millions of motorbikes. Our taxi driver said on the way to dropping us in Hanoi, that the city has a population of 5 million and the same numner of motorbikes! We found a B&B in the Old Quater of Hanoi, the room ... read more