Right - very quick update. Off to Koh Tao tonight via overnight train - should be a laugh...the 4 of us are all booked into one compartment which has 4 berths men on bottom bunks - women on top (as it were...)

Weve finally agreed to stay at Ban's Diving Resort - which we've been told is excellent. Mike is definitely doing his course - we are not sure what we're going to do yet - definitely chill out a bit though after Bangkok...

Apparently there's not alot of internet access on the island so we'll probably not have much by means of an update for a few days - feel free to keep the emails flowing though as we'll reply on our return to the mainland. The current plan is to try to get to Ko Samui and then fly up to Chiang Mai in about a week or so before venturing into Laos.

I am sure this'll change fairly soon as we're not sure if we can indeed get direct flights to CM from KS.