Bangkok

Our flight to Bangkok was fine, 1hr 40 mins. First thing that hit me, the heat and humidity! Even though it had been raining, it was still hotter than anywhere else I had been. Our hostel specialises in Meat Pies. Twenty mins after checking in I was tucking into a Beef and Onion pie - delicious.

That night we met up with Will, a friend from Law School. Four bottles of Chang beer and some food left us both with bad heads the next morning (it is 6per cent!). We pottered about the next day to waste time, doing a bit of shopping etc, before getting on the train for the overnight journey south. We are staying another day or so there on our way back home, so ill do more 'touristy' stuff then.

The train was fine, though the fact that the air-con broke made it impossible to sleep. A 2 hour bus journey followed by a 3 hour ferry took us to Koh Phangan.