Missy

It was Blair's birthday on the 28th on Phi Phi island. The day before we had a great day snorkeling and swimming but this day we decided to try and walk to the main beach on Phi Phi. One of the girls from our snorkeling trip had walked back from the main beach from our hotel and was told it should only take 20mins, but instead took her 2hrs as she got lost. So she warned us that there wasn't much signage but that it was possible if we took the right route to get to the other side. We started our walk up a very steep hill and found the track wasn't very defined and was very dense to walk through. Anyway we continued on up the steep hill, followed by a swarm of mosquitos ... read more

Railay Beach, what a mission to get to.....but totally worth it! We took a flight from Bangkok to Phuket, then took a 2hr car shuttle from Phuket airport to Ao Nang beach. Along the way we saw some unusual passengers in the truck next to us....two elephants, not something you see every day! From Ao Nang beach we climbed in a long tail boat on the beach with all our suitcases (where I fell over when I got in because the ladder flipped over when it went over a wave) and made our way in a tiny boat to Railay. Unfortunately it started raining just as we got to the beach, but we got into our room just before the downpour! We could have done the commute easier if we had a flight to Krabi-but flights ... read more

It's our last full day in Paris today before we go home tomorrow night. We've had an amazing trip so far, but after almost 5 weeks away we are ready to come home now. Today we went up the Arc De Triumph which had the best views over Paris, then took a train to Sacre Coeur which is a cathedral that looks over the city, then had some amazing pastires at a bakery that was started in 1730 and then had some dinner. We had more of a relaxing day today as it's our last full day. Tomorrow we will probably just relax and do a bit of walking around until our flight leaves at 9.30pm. We've had an amazing time away, we've learnt lots of new things about the different countries we've been to and ... read more

Today we went to the Louvre. We got on the train at the Arc De Triumph and then got off again...... But when we got off we realised we were still looking at the Arc De Triumph rather than the Louvre (we'd only made it about 100 metres down the road haha). We then got back on and got off at the right stop. When we'd finally got into the Louvre we made a plan of how to see everything, but realised that after doing only a tiny bit of it (1/12th) that we weren't going to get through it all, so we just picked a few places we wanted to see and did it that way. We managed to see the Mona Lisa which wasn't as crowded as we'd thought, and we saw Napoleon's different ... read more

So last night we decided to eat out cheaply and go to a nearby tapas bar. The bar we went to was very much where the locals went for a beer on the way home..... We didn't see anyone eating though but we really wanted cheap authentic tapas. Unfortunately at 3am blair felt the full the effects of the cheaply purchased tapas and started vomiting, closely followed by diarrhoea. We thought after a few chucks in the night and a bit of sleep it would go away..... But no, it was even worse in the morning! So I went on a little outing to buy some more water, powerade, bananas and went to pharmacy to buy some electrolytes and antinausea medication. But Blair still couldn't keep anything in so I went back to the pharmacy to ... read more