EllaRhian

10th Feb 14. We headed to Krabi for 3 nights - and of course we were staying in the accommodation booked for us which were little bungalows, a 5 minute walk from the beach but miles from the town/nightlife. Arriving there we were skeptical of our hotel but the bungalows were nice, clean and big. The only problem with all these hotels were that they weren't sociable or anything and we didn't meet any other travellers AT ALL. Not exactly what we wanted being two 18 year olds, we felt like 40 year olds on a family holiday in the places we were staying, so frustrating. Krabi was average as were the nights out - we found ourselves playing connect 4 in a bar with two strangers on our last night, WILD. Chang bar was probably ... read more

Before arriving in Bangkok, we saw the news of shootings and grenade attacks in the capital because of the unrest and protests of the elections, so we were preparing ourselves to enter some kind of war zone but it was nothing of the sort. We arrived in Bangkok at about 10pm to extremely humid weather, which was horrible in a massive jumper and leggings! After searching the airport for our taxi driver, we finally found a tiny Thai man grinning and holding a sign saying 'Ella West', yes I'm basically a celebrity now . Unfortunately I also quickly came to the realisation that I couldn't take out money as I hadn't informed my bank of my travels, so obviously when I tried to take money out, they contacted the fraud squad, FANTASTIC start to the trip. ... read more

I've already finished my trip but I decided to start this blog so that I could remember because even now, 2 months after returning, my memories are becoming hazy! I also thought it'd be nice to share my experiences as they were all completely new to me. I'm Ella, 19 years old (18 when I started my trip) from a small, mudane town in England. I took a 'gap yah' after finishing my A levels (English Lit, Media, Biology and Art and textiles) in June 2013 with the average grades of BBC. I always knew I wanted to take a gap year and travel so I never applied for uni. Whilst my friends were doing their UCAS, I was purely thinking of travelling and luckily my best friend, Yasmin, also wanted to take a gap year..so ... read more