Our night train finally pulled into Chang Mai. Im getting use to it now but theres nothing more frustrating than being told the journey will take 12 hours and it taking 15 hours. Patience is not one of my greatest characteristics but at least im using this opportunity to work on it. Free therapy hey!!! Using our trusty Lonely Planet we got a taxi to some accommodation called Julie's Guest House. Full come back tomorrow at 10am!! So far on this journey we have been very fortunate with where we stay, considering there are 7 of us, and we have stayed [View Full Entry]

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Well guys as you can see from the blog entries there is one in this relationship that has both the patience and novel writing skills to give an up to date and details account of our travels better than the other....and 6 weeks into travelling I am becoming quite relaxed (ys that means lazy) and fit in perfectly with the thai's way of life...slow. Kieran has been doing a fantastic job of keeping you all in the loop as to where we are and what we have been up to and now it is my turn....we arrived back into Bangkok in [View Full Entry]

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So the top gear journey of the year begun. We left Puhket bright and early stood on the side of the road waiting for a bus. The fact that there was no bus stop or timetable didnt matter as we knew it would come but we hoped it would stop for us. The journey to Ko Pahyam would see us lug our bags onto the bus, a coach to Ranong where we were picked by Vijit (the guy who owned the accommdation) in his pick-up truck, then we got his speed boat to make the 30min trip to Ko Payham where [View Full Entry]

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Ive promised myself that this will only be short and sweet. It has taken alot of effort blogging but im determined to catch up to the present day so its head down and a*se up to get it done. The last blog ended with us all stood on the back of a ferry waving a tearful fearwell to Phi Phi. On reflection we had a really good time but im not convinced yet it was my favourite place. When we leave Thailand I might do a run down or awards type ceremony of the previous six weeks and take more time [View Full Entry]

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Our last blog finished en-route to Ko Phi Phi (location of the Hollywood blockbuster 'The Beach' and an area heavily affected by the Tsunami). I mention these things again as they are both conversely the biggest contributors to the islands DNA. Both are commodities that can be sold and both draw tourists to the island in their thousands. Sidenote- the journey from Railey was only 50 mins or so but it was a good opportunity for me and Bazman to get a lick of sun, with our sunglasses on think of Duran Duran's 'Rio'. Apart from the supermodels but i'm sure [View Full Entry]

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Good afternoon to one and all as I'm writing this it's Wednesday evening here and Wednesday afternoon in the UK. I'm not certain what the weathers like but I won't rub it in :-) the last blog finished with us preparing to leave Ko Phan Ngang (KPN), so we spent our last night chilling out at the lotus with the girls we had met and fredrick. We all had tickets to leave on the same ferry so we would all get the taxi together and hopefully get it for 80 baht each (see the previously mentioned issue with price fixing to [View Full Entry]

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Sa Wa Dii Kwap everybody yes thats right ive actually learnt spme Thai. well its the only thing we all know how to say. Well we've learnt how to say thank-you but its still a poor effort for nearly two weeks. Lazy English i think :-). Ive tried to correct this by learning 1-10 yesterday from a Swedish guy we've met. So here I go, no cheating, nung, sung, sam, si, ha, hock, jet, pet, caw & zip!!! Tadaaaa round of applause for me. So we're about 12 or days in, to be honest im not sure exactly how many apart [View Full Entry]

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We're taking this blogging in turn so its my go at penning our action and drama filled few days. After we settled in Bangkok we spent the next day relaxing by the pool deciding between drinking vodka and red bull or Chang Chang. Dan & Dean decided that the vodka wasnt strong enough and went back onto the 6.5% Chang. Considering the most you'll pay for a bottle of Chang is 1.50 you can see why a few of the nights have been abit hazy. On our second night we decided to sucuumb to the frustratingly vast amount of tuk-tuk drivers [View Full Entry]

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Well we've arrived....at 3.30 pm yesterday we landed in Bangkok airport after the 11 hour flight from Heathrow. Although I had been worrying whether there would be free alcohol on the flight (which by the way there was!) I slept most of the way-something I don't usually tend to do. It is hard to put into words the feeling of walking out of the airport into the sweatbox that is Bangkok. The heat hits you as soon as you walk out of the air conditioned airport but luckily we managed to jump straight into a taxi/people carrier (5 people and 5 [View Full Entry]

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So here it is... the coundown is on. Only one more day at work then that is it!!! This is our first blog so excuse me if ive done it wrong. At the moment Kat is packing her rucksack, very organised I know considering we dont leave until Saturday; but the real reason is that we're busy tomorrow, thursday and friday. We dont really want to leave until the last minute, we want a stress free morning on Saturday :-) Although im not sure thats likely. Its my go at packing in a minute although i cant see it taking long [View Full Entry]

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