my head phones are on, listening to ac/dc thunderstruck, sitting with my legs in the pool, attached to our room and michelle is sunbathing. we like thailand again. the place we are staying in is out of this world. everyone has pool access from their room and there is a bar every 50 metres along the pool (it stretches like a river all round the hotel). the weather is brilliant here and there is a good breeze going past our section of the pool so we're really enjoying it. i have two red knees now where they were over exposed to the sun and michelle has two had prints on either thigh from the way she was sunbathing! last night we walked up and down the koh san road and got some street food and had ... read more

if we thought trekking up a tough mountain in very hot weather was tough, bangkok is harder. every where you go people are harrassing you and trying to openly con you out of your money(mainly taxi drivers and tuk-tuks). i like it here but, there is a lot not to like. there is a lot of those loud arrogant obnoxious type here. i will have photos soon of the street we are staying on and it looks cool but you need a lot of energy to walk it, or maybe even will power. we decided that if you cant beat 'em, join 'em, so we are gonna head for a few drinks later. today we headed for the MBK shopping centre knowing that dunkin dounghts and armani staff arent trained to harass you! this place was ... read more

hello everyone. i think we'll remember today for a long time. it was pretty cool. we were collected today at 8am with two Americans (Max & Gina) to go trekking. first we drove for an hour in to the mountains and then trekked up more mountains to meet a hill tribe. it was a hard trek up but worth it in the end. the people live such simple lives. then we headed on some more till we got to an elephant camp. here we took a trek and an elephant for about an hour and of course we got then wild one. you had to buy bananas to feed them and ours was the greediest of the lot. he wouldn't move unless we fed him. his bananas didn't last long! near the end of our trek ... read more

Darren well the journey i've been eat, sleep and drinking for the last 6 months is finally here. tomorrow myself and Michelle will hit the road for Dublin for our flight at 6 a.m. on Friday morning. three weeks of no work. we're fairly gonna rack up the air miles (22,000 in total) and 7 different flights, enough of a carbon footprint for a few years. first up is Chiang Mai for 4 nights before we get an overnight (14hr) train to bangkok where we will spend two nights. Then its on to Phuket for two nights where Michelle is booked in for a couple of days in the spa so i suppose ill go too, to keep her company!! Finally we head to Phi Phi, to a small resort with a beach only 150 meters ... read more