Southeast Asia Trip in Numbers

70 Days 2 Continents 7 Countries

26,883 Miles by plane 777 Miles by bus/coach (we avoided overnighters) 693 Miles by train (average 1 cockroach per 48 miles) 183 Miles by car 192 Miles by ferry 100 Miles by sailboat 0.5 Miles by motorbike (before we crashed in Hoi An) 28,828 Miles in total (1.16 times [...]

Sydney – The Final Destination

There was one good reason not to go to Sydney, we’ve been twice before in the last three years. Fortunately for us, however, there are many good reasons to keep going back – it’s on a very exclusive list of cities that I would love to move to one day, the only other that springs [...]

Back in Byron Bay

It was a tough call after Airlie Beach, do we rush around and have a few nights exploring Fraser Island or do we go to Byron Bay?  We first visited Byron in November 2007 and vowed to return and with the little time we have here in Australia we thought that a few nights rushing [...]

Whitsunday Islands and The Great Barrier Reef

9 October – 12 October

We checked out of the hostel on day three and made our way to the Able Point Marina where we found our new home for the next three nights, a 30 metre sailing racer called Spank Me.  Most people who come to the Whitsundays take some sort of a trip [...]

Airlie Beach, Australia

7 October – 9 October

Australia: after two months in Southeast Asia we’re back down under.  It was only a few weeks ago we said to each other we wished we hadn’t booked flights all the way to Australia as we were having too much fun where we were, the smart money was [...]

The Buckets on Haad Rin Beach are NOT for Sandcastles

Ko Phangan, 28 September – 6 October.

Getting here was simple enough, just an hour or so on the boat from Ko Tao.  We were genuinely worried about accommodation for the first time since we started the trip – this was the week building up to the Full Moon Party (FMP) and it gets busy [...]

Island Hopping in Thailand

Phase two of our ten week trip.  We’re now done with the Southeast Asian cities and have covered thousands of miles over the last seven weeks.  ‘Phase Two’ is all about suncream and shorts and what better place than the three islands of Ko Samui, Ko Tao and Ko Phangan in Thailand to do this; [...]