Quatschtante

Hello!! Well.... I was planning on writing a really long blog (what a surprise!) about the past 10 and a half months - the highs/lows etc. but its nearly midnight and I have to be up in 5 hours and I'm just too tired!! So I think I'm going to postpone it until I get home! :o) But basically.... I have had an amazing time travelling and I know I've been really really lucky to have been able to come away, see everything I've seen, done everything I have and to have made some amazing friends and still be going home in one piece (especially after a few close calls... the Worlds Most Dangerous Road in Bolivia, the parachute not opening sky diving in NZ etc.!)! It still hasn't sunk in that I really am finally ... read more

Hello!! I could either get the bus back to Bangkok from Phuket or Krabi so I decided to get the boat to Krabi as I'd already been to Phuket and had heard Krabi is really nice!! The hostel I wanted to stay in was full so ended up on my own in a guesthouse but luckily I met 2 English girls on the boat to the beach the next day and spend the day with them which was nice! The beach was really beautiful and surrounded by stunning limestone cliffs, it was so lovely I wished I could have stayed a bit longer but I could only stay 3 hours before heading back to Krabi town to get the night bus to Bangkok! The bus to Bangkok was an absolute nightmare but am running out of ... read more

Hello!! Going to whiz though these last blogs because have a million things left to do before my flight first thing tomorrow morning! Grace and I got the overnight bus down to Bangkok and watched Pretty Woman on her laptop which was really cool... until the DVD broke half way through (maybe that's why it only cost $1!!)! We arrived in Bangkok at about 6am so I decided to get a bus straight down South to the islands! I was planning on spending the day in Bangkok and then getting the overnight bus down there, but as we got there earlier than I thought I thought I might as well get a move on as I didn't have much time and didn't really want to be hanging around in Bangkok all day either! So I got ... read more

Hello!! I spent about 6 days in Changmai and really liked it, especially after I changed hostels! I spent the first few nights in a really horrible hostel where they were no other travellers because the popular hostel was constantly full! I didn't really do much those first few days apart from wander around, read, catch up with emails and went to the dentist! I was a bit homesick and lonely so even ended up going into bars where they were showing English football with English commentary just so I felt more at home! :o) Luckily though on my third day in Changmai I managed to get into the hostel and finally ended my boring spell of having no friends! :o) That day I did a cooking course which I had signed up to a few ... read more

Hello!! After finally making it to the Laos border, we headed for Khong Island (one of the 4000 islands in the South of Laos) via bus and boat, arriving mid-afternoon to find that there was currently no electricity on the island so our room was almost unbearable in the heat without a fan or air conditioning! Unfortunately, Michi was ill that day/night so we didn't really do much, although the next day we decided we would give riding a moped ourselves a go! We spent most of the morning and afternoon driving around the island, which was really fun, and eventually I felt brave enough to try too..... occassionally I forgot where the brakes where but apart from that it was fine and really really really fun! :o) That afternoon we were punished for neglecting our ... read more