Day Four - Phuket to Koh Phi Phi Don Woke up in phuket after an average nights sleep on a pretty solid bed and pillow. We had arranged with the American guy who owns the hotel a pick up at 12:30 to take us to the ferry to get on the boat that will take us to the Phi Phi island. We squeezed into a small mini bus and travelled about 40mins through the streets of Phuket to the ferry port where we boarded a medium boat to Phi Phi - sitting on the top deck the sun decided to come out after all the rain we have had it was lovley! After about 2 hours on the ferry we pulled into the small dock of phi phi and greeted by swarms of locals trying to ... read more

Day one & Two Shrewsbury - to Bangkok via Istanbul! Very early start this morning set my alarm for 5:30am to start getting ready for the journey. Neil (my brother) picked us up at 6:30 and drove us to Birmingham Airport - once we checked in and i finally got rid of my MASSIVE bag it was all so much easier - through to departures where we sat in the weather-spoons and had breakfast and drinks. Soon enough our flight was ready to board. Flight was pretty smooth small 30mins delay which was fine but annoyed many of the other passengers - i suppose we were in no rush to get to Istanbul with 10 hours to waste! Once we arrived in Turkey we followed everyone else through to the passport control - we qued for ... read more