NO PICTURES Putting this up as only text as its way overdue, laptop isn't working due to random windows XP crash due to shitty Microsoft. I'll add pictures later when facilities allow, in the meantime if you see Bill Gates private jet flying overhead try scatter some pigeons at its engines, that should teach the wanker to develop some decent operating software. windowssystem32configsystem Getting this when I start up, repair doesnt work, safe mode doesn't work and my computer doesnt have a windows cd nor a cd drive to run one. Any ideas welcome. In the meantime... I'm getting pissed on in Phi Phi, who would have thought? Seconds after myself and Blondie found a guesthouse the sky went the color of tarmac and forks of lighting began to tickle the rocky green peaks that shoulder ... read more

Note: having laptop trouble and the internet cafes here have no microsoft word and hence no spellcheck, sorry for the inevitable spelling errors! "Welcome Bangkok" says the taxi man when he drops us off at the Ko San Road. To discribe the Ko San Road as a street is wholly inacurate, its a living breathing entity, the best analogy would be to say its kind of like Mos Eisley, the desert town featured in several of of the star wars films. The fact that mos Eisley doesnt exist gives you an an idea of how unreal the place is! I step out of the taxi and the smells hits you, our nostrols are assailed by the combined stench of a score of street food stales selling everything from cheese burgers to fried cockroaches as big as ... read more

“You guys won’t want to leave once you walk out that door” The Kiwi customs officer says this about his homeland completely matter of fact and deadpan. Mind you from what I’ve heard from buddies who have travelled around NZ before, it’s some spot. The weather is gorgeous, yet they can go skiing after only a short island hop, they invented bungee jumping, they all love Rugby instead of soccer, Jesus was born here…in the church of Wally, Jesus is also known by his human name Peter Jackson and to cap it off 1.5% of the population list their religious beliefs as “Jedi”. Seriously, New Zealand is as awesome as Arnold schwarzenegger and all the legendary Hollywood action heroes taking part in a steer up to steer up cavalry charge…with tyrannosaurus Rexes as steeds. We get ... read more

Leaving San Pedro is like walking past Zaytoon Kebab shop at 3Am on Camden Street Dublin, something I really didn't want to do. Unfortunately changing our previously arranged bus tickets in exchange for another afternoon of sand boarding was a small fortune and in fairness if a family cat was coughing up as much hairballs as I was hocking up swallowed sand you'd have to put it down. We had two buses to catch, one from San Pedro to Caldera and a HI tech Boula bus from there to Santiago. Caldera being a hub for mining operations in the north of Chile and a stone throw from the famous Chilean mine rescue that happened late last year. The second bus, while we occupied seats that comfortably reclined that were thankfully not located inches from the toilet ... read more

Waking up at 4 Am isn’t a nice experience, unfortunately the Taito geysers, one of the nearby attractions are most active at sunrise making an easy start unavoidable. Tom and Laura arrived up from Vino del Mar and decided sign up too. Our efforts to sleep have been hampered by our fellow hosteller guest whom we shall call for the purposes of this entry “Jimmy”. Jimmy is on a serious mission to meet and hopefully have carnal with a Chilean female and his days throughout the hostel are devoted to this quest. This evening he was pumped, he had wooed no less then nine allegedly drop dead gorgeous members of Chile’s fairer sex on a romantic tour to the Valle De Luna, AKA moon Valley and had arranged to meet them later that evening for drinks ... read more