IMGP5690Our room at Fancy GHDay 3…. Got up early today, as had to check out from hotel by 11am, plus we had booked our ticket to the airport for 11am, want to try and check out the bus times to Rayong again so this will give us enough time as don’t fly till 3.15pm. Had [...]

Long time no blog! Well Thailand was mega and most enjoyable, cheap and totally unscarey. We stayed on Koh Chang (Elephant Island) for nearly 2 weeks, got our lovely little seaview hut in Bang Bao which was an old fishing village at the bottom tip of the island, the pier was flanked either side with [...]

Hey Dudes – Just a quickie we are covering so much ground there is hardly time to stop and treat myself to a bit of internet blogging I usually just get time to surf for a bit of local information and off we go again! So we headed off from Rotorua over a week ago [...]

Take a guess where this isThis blog won’t arouse too much interest this time around and I apologize for that. Quite honestly it is even difficult for me to write because it’s so boring. But here goes……… Two and a half weeks ago I went into Bangkok for arthroscopic surgery on my left shoulder. For [...]

My hotel: Segara NindaAfter the beuatiful underwater worlds of Ko Tao, I took a boat back to the mainland and a night train to Malaysia; a new country for me to visit! The border crossing went pretty smooth, and around 13h, I arrived in Butterworth, where I would take the ferry to Georgetown, Penang. Penang [...]

Well last Sunday was the big day that I have been preparing the last two years for. I wrote the Grade 6 Thai test, which the Thai government has set as the standard of fluency. Passing this test is one of the requirements to be able to get a missionary visa. On Friday, my Thai [...]

Hi all! Sorry for the lack of updates recently! We spent quite a few days in Haad Rin after arriving on the terrible boat. Seeing as it is a party town we quickly fell into the day of fun / day of recovering flow. We decided to have a look around some other parts of [...]

The first week I was there I looked at my Thursdays and sighed a breath of relief only two classes, a breeze. No no, not possible. Thursday morning I get approached and asked if I would like to coach Drama club. At the end of the year they are putting on a play. After agreeing [...]

Monkey business, Monkey Beach.Ko Phi Phi Don We arrived at Ko Phi Phi later on in morning & was welcomed with the usual mayhem that we were all now accustomed to. Thankfully waiting for us at the pier was Kieran & Barry who had gone straight to Phi Phi from Railey. Phi Phi has no [...]

Videos in the Playlist: 1: Tickling the baby elephant 13 secs2: Muay Thai!!! 13 secs3: Swift Birds returning home for the night 15 secsThis will be replaced by the player. //

Thai massage in BangkokPrior to Ben’s tears of pain.Our 2nd week began with a 30 hour train journey from Chiang Mai acroos the country to Kao Phanghan via Bangkok. Arriving in Bangkok, the plan was shopping and relaxation. Walking down Kao San Road, we spotted a bar replaying the Merseyside derby from the previous day. [...]

Ko PahyamView from the speedboatSo the top gear journey of the year begun. We left Puhket bright and early stood on the side of the road waiting for a bus. The fact that there was no bus stop or timetable didnt matter as we knew it would come but we hoped it would stop for [...]

trekking with ben 001We met with Kate and Rich from uni in a sport’s bar and the first night of our trip began! After many Chang’s (Our favourite Thai beer), we ended up dancing on a table in the middle of a footy shirt infested club. Jet lag + alcohol = 4pm start to day [...]

Angkor WatRather than the usual blogs on small weekend breaks and shopping trips to Tesco’s which we have been boring you with since being back in the real world we have finally been somewhere of note to warrant a “Travel Blog”, I hope. Whilst the destination is far flung our traditional methods of traveling are [...]

Klong Jark WaterfallsKo Lanta The journey from Railey took 3 hours on a boat. Whilst on the boat Dean, Sam & I enjoyed a Chang or 2, where we also booked our accommodation with a crazy, yet pleasant Thai woman for the Green Garden Beach resort, Klong Khong beach – which proved to be a [...]