Koh Phangan

Hi all! So after leaving our hostel in Bangkok on Tuesday night we got the sleeper train to Surat
Thani. It took about 13 hours and was a little stuffy but quite comfortable, the toilets however where a touch vile and looked more like some iron clad medieval torture chamber. We then got a transfer on  a coach to the coast and then a speedy catamaran to the island Koh Phangan.

We are staying in some bungalows just on the beach, they are quite pretty and we have a huge bed, balcony with some seating and an ace hammock looking out over the sea. There is also a bar that has quite a good selection of food and we tend to eat breakfast down there and have a few nice evening meals.

On the first night Poppy woke me up at about three am shouting me, I then felt some thing run over me. Thinking it was a lizard or snake a hurriedly jumped to get the light on and there it was a big slimy cockroach. After this first encounter we both had a restless night and Poppy got up about eight to go out onto our hammock leaving the door open, I awoke to find a mangy cat tucked up against me  and it took us about ten minutes to get the flea bag out of our bungalow.

On Thursday we went to a full moon party on haad rin beach, there was lots of people there drinking and dancing. James got too drunk so poppy had to take him home at half past 12. 

Tonight we visited a night food market in Thongsala, they had loads of nice little stalls with lots of exciting different things. There were stalls with what looked like offal soup, whole cooked ducks, braised pig heads we avoided these stalls. Instead we had shrimp Pad Thai cooked by two young

boys(14-16) one had a Radiohead t-shirt on so we thought it must be good and it was. We also had
some fresh fruit smoothies, some weird spiral basil crisp stick and pineapple and chocolate pancakes, it was all really good and mega cheap.

Hope you are well
Love James & Poppy

Looks like we made it!

Hello! So after a very long journey we finally made it to Bangkok!
We Had our first full day here today and went to the oldest park in bankok, lumphini park, where instead of having ducks they had massive monitor lizards... Explains the lack of ducks. There was also lots of big Karp in the lakes and nice pavilions. Good place to get away from all the hustle and bustle of the city.

After a sweaty stroll around the park we went to find something to eat, found one restaurant that looked popular with the locals so we went in sat down and got a menu but then every waiter ignored us when we tried to get their attention - we walked out. Found a good shopping area with lots of street food, we had some tempura shrimp, squid and soft shell crab for 40baht which is about 90p! Also got some street waffles for 10baht each one with coconut and one with sweet corn inside, then we got some weird drinks with sago apple jelly balls and cubes in which was pretty gross.

We hopped on the sky train back to the hostel then popped out for tea a bit later, James had some flat huge noodles with stir fried chicken and veg and I had pad thai with shrimp (prawns) which comes wrapped in an egg blanket over here.

Going to get the sleeper train and ferry to koh phangan tomorrow night, hopefully the weather will stay nice, there was a thunder storm this morning but we slept through most of it.

Hope the weather is getting nice for you all back home

Love from Poppy & James xx

The count down begins!

Hello everyone! First post of the travel blog we've decided to do so here goes...

Its the 3rd of April and the countdown begins! 17 days to go & we still have lots to organise but James finally has his new passport and we have all our visas! Next on the list is foreign currency & travel insurance.

Also just a quick reminder for the leaving party, its a week on saturday.  The 13th of April at the Big Six pub in Savile Park from 7.30pm til late.

Hope to see lots of faces before we leave!

Poppy & James x