Day 23 – 29: Thailand and Laos

Okay, so I’ve been a bit lazy and haven’t been posting lately, but seriously, it’s because I’ve been travelling so far! Sorry for the belated post, but I’m going to sit here for a while and pound out everything I’ve done!
Day 23:
So I left by saying that we didn’t end up going to the full [...]

Day 21& 22: Koh Samui, Thailand

Day 20:
So I left Patong (FINALLY) and caught a long 4 hour bus ride to Surat Thani (where the wharf is to take yout to most of the popular east coast islands) and then a 1.5 hour boat ride to Koh Samui. I met a group of Irish on their way to Australia, which was [...]

Day 18, 19 & 20: Phuket, Thailand

Okay, so I’ve been pretty lazy in updating my blog, but I’ve just had Rob come up from Singapore on day 18! I moved into this really cool guesthouse called PU (name of the first owner) J-Lo (Pu thinks she looks like J-Lo) 401 (the room where she met her husband… yes, very shonky). It’s [...]

Day 15 & 16: Patong (Phuket), Thailand

Had a massive night last night and we met a few more Aussies – FROM SEFTON! Crazily small world, Danny and Tom live really close to me and we all had a massive night at ‘Aussie Bar”. I didn’t get home till about 4am. The following day I we all decided to meet up again [...]

Day 14: Bangkok (Lazing poolside), Thailand

Nursing a monster hangover I found myself waking up at 12 and sitting poolside, met some more aussies whom were on ’schoolies’ (in Thailand, WTF!) it was a group of 9 girls from Byron, that’s NUTS, my parents would have never let me do that!
I was trying to even out my tan lines, [...]

Day 13: Bangkok (Chatachuk* Markets), Thailand

25/11/2006
WOW, today was a hectic, hectic day! I went to the Chatachuk markets, home of the biggest markets i’ve seen in my life (and one of the biggest in the world according to lonely planet). There were 15,000 stalls and I had made the journey with Jo, Ella and Yvette (aussies whom I met the [...]

Day 12: Bangkok, Thailand

24/12/2006
Yesterday was a pretty cool day in Bangkok. I met up with Zvir again and we decided to go to the Grand Palace and Wat Pho (home of the reclining Buddha) together. We caught a boat down the river and ended up at the Kings Palace, which was pretty phenomenal! We walked around for a [...]

Day 8 – 11: Bangkok, Thailand

Okay, so I’ve been pretty lazy in my posting of late, but I think I think I can be excused, as the tummy bug had hit me HARD! I arrived on Tuesday (21/11) from Phnom Penh and saw Jem off to India. I waited at the taxi terminal for a bit and bumped into a [...]