Well we made it to the divers paradise of Koh Tao (actually been here for a week enjoying ourselves sorry if we’ve been neglecting you!). Not such a gruelling journey as last time though, only an hour and a half by high speed catamaran, but the choppy weather left Mrs Fraser a little the worse for wear (sick as a dog to be precise - we’ll be going back on the slow boat). We’d booked ourselves in with New Way diving (www.newwaydiving.com) to spend 3 days doing our PADI Open Water dive course and one of the staff - Pom - [View Full Entry]

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After several days of glorious sunshine the weather became a bit temperamental so we just camped out on the balcony for a few days and caught up on some reading (in between bijou naps!). Decided to hire a jeep on the Friday night so we could go to the cinema and then go touring on the Saturday, but in true Thai style the film times and languages randomly changed so we ended up going home and watching Monster in Law with J Lo! Happy days. Got up on Saturday and the weather was getting back to normal (scorchio!) so we headed [View Full Entry]

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After 16 hours by taxi, bus, 2 converted pick ups and a boat we made it from Bangkok to Fishermans Village in Koh Samui. The bus journey wasn’t too bad (although describing the bus as VIP might be stretching things a bit) and we were entertained with a few dubious films before lights out. We did get a laugh when a Dutch guy thought his mate “had got off the bus for a pee” and been left at a layby - he began pleading with the Thai driver to stop the bus but it got lost in translation and the driver [View Full Entry]

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Bangkok 9th - 13th May 2006 Well we made to Bangkok - No upgrade on the flight but no problem plenty of room to spread out and try and get some sleep. Bartered our way into a taxi and were safely delivered to Sofitel Silom. Fantastic hotel, and the honeymooners(!) were upgraded to an executive suite on the 32nd floor with awesome views of Bangkok and access to the club lounge and complementary canapes and cocktails every evening - we could get used to this!! After a day of orientation (having sleep in until lunch time and missing breakfast - jetlag!!) [View Full Entry]

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