My Sparkly, Twinkly Adventures....

Hello again!!!Following extreme travel withdrawl symptoms and the depressing British "summertime" I whipped off for a few days with my Dad to Bergen in Norway and a trip around the Fjords which was great!We went by boat so had a little cabin which was really cool, I loved it!!!Bought a spectacular, big, wooly hat...all pink and blue!Indulged in a little troll also!

Invested in some Nordic whilst in Bergen!!Love them!

So had a great time, the Fjords were really beautiful adn it was a nice break before I leave the northern climes of Newcastle to move back to London!

Well here I am in Singapore waiting for my flight back to London....Had a bit of a nightmare from Bangkok to Singapore, didnt know about the departure tax and here i was with 460 baht, 40B short...after several tears were whipped out and lots of begging a one of the women from the airline gave me it out of her own pocket!!!So kind! The journey wasnt great...hit major turbulence and I honastl thought the end had come, the plane went almost vertical!Everyone screamed...Ive never been frightened of flying but this really un-nerved me and I worried about the long flight back to the Uk in just a few hours time!
So here I am and I cant believe it is all over, I feel really sad but at the same time I feel this huge achievement, after the months of anticipation, i have now got all these wonderful memories which will stay with me forever! So back to sunny Heathrow it is!!!All I know is that this trip has sparked a super intense travel bug and now I look forward to doing it all over again!!!

Had such a fantastic Day! Got up bright and early, enjoyed a lovely breakfast then set off to Sumkuvit to collect my tickets from Singapore Airlines!Bit of a trek but great opportunity to see a bit more of Bangkok before i set off back to England. When I got there realised I was right by Lumphini Park which was great as It had been one of the places I had wanted to visit on my first stay in Bangkok and as I hadnt planned on ending up back in the Capital this was an added bonus to get to see it!!!Following this I decided to take a stroll around the Sumkivit area to see what else was on offer!!!I had really wanted to visit Patpong Market but me and Daniel never got the chance so imagine my delight when I accidentaly stumbled upon it!

Soooooooo glad I didnt miss out on Patpong,it was the best shopping experience of my whole arounf the world trip!!!!The bargains to be had, simply amazing!!!Bought the cutest little green, beaded top, some Buddha statues, few t-shirts then, some pretty little fans for presents, and then the fins of all finds......a little stall selling all this pretty Hello Kitty, Miffy blah blah blah stuff!what a selection, couldnt believe my eyes, I was almost hysterical!the guy even had to give me a little basket as I grabbed more and more handfuls of delights!!!!Those ever cute little chrams for phones and bags that I have become so fond of since visiting Japan were only 40baht each so I got loads!Beautiful hello Kitty watches, pencil cases......it was fabulous!The market was huge, I could have spent hours and hours there and thousands of Baht!Headed back to Khao San as Nicola was due to be arriving and Ive missed her since we have spent 24 hours a day with eachother the past few weeks!Decided to be adventurous and attempt the boats again, this time I was on my own with armfulls of shopping bags so it was all the more daunting!It was great to see the views of Bangkok before I leave this amazing country!

Arrived back in Khao San to be reunited with my little travel chum Nicola!Went out for a couple of pineapple shakes and some food!Enjoyed my final night in Thailand enjoying the street cocktails of Bangkok as we pulled up our little plastic stools....my whole Thailand experience ended the same as it had begun!!!Ive had the most incredible time, words can not explain how amazing this trip has been, This is the most unforgetable life experience and I will remember it forever.....

Oh My god.....set off from Koh Pha Ngan first in a van, then on a bus, then on a boat and finally on the "VIP" bus!!!!The journey which should have take 14 hours ended up taking 24....The first event, I left Nicola in Hat Rin as she is going to travel tomorrow instead, I had a fainting incident of the super cramped boat which I believe was the effects of sitting in the 90 degree sun on the top deck of the boat...no one helped me at all apart from a lovely Australian guy who bought me some warm, orange flavoured milk as there was no water on board!!!!All was well, met a really nice Malaysian girl who helped me through the crowds with my backpack and told me stories of her passion for whitewater rafting!!!Got stuck at Surrathani for about 2 hours before being told the buses were all full so I got taken to another random place followed with another 2 hour long wait!!!Eventually got on the bus where I bagged a double seat to myself and settles down to watch some badly dubbed Kung-Fu movie!!!We made a brief stop off at a service station before hopping back on board....was nice and cosy when this very tall German guy came and took the seat next to me!!!I mean come on, where had he been sitting the previous 5 hours?!?!There was no need, he was proper sprawled out and I found myself squashed like a sardine in the corner...the final straw came when her caressed my knee and drooled on my shoulder so had to lay down the law...the rest of the journey was spent with him purposely hogging the space out of spite!!!!In the middle of some really baron road in the pitch dark the bus made a really lous, scary bang and tilted to one side with gave us all a fright, I thought a bomb had gone off. Turns out the wheel had come off the bus!!!we spent several hours in a garage before getting back on the road!!!Finally arrived in Bangkok after a massive 24 hour long journey! Tired and famished I went to seek solice in the good old Siam Oriental Inn...grabbed one of the special breakfasts which I had missed then caught up on a few hours sleep before going for a look around the Banglamphu street stalls and a couple of temples!!!!

Well last night we finally experienced the musch anticipated Full Moon Party!!!Had a really good time, apprarently there was 12,000 people there!!!It was all hectic and busy, some great music, fabulous fire shows, and of course the Sangsom was flowing!!!!

It was fun!!!Had a great time here on Koh Pha Ngan, its been a a good laugh, and those pancakes with mars bars in are divine!!!!

Tomorrow I have to make the dreaded trip all the way north to Bangkok which Im looking forward to as I loved Bangkok the first time round and theres still a lot more I want to see there!Not as excited about the bus journey but hey, its all part and parcel and I suppose those random stop offs at strange Thai service stations are interesting!!!!