Well well well, I have reached the final day of my trip. I spent the last few days in Maryland preparing for, then attending my friend Nicola's weddi…

Well. Today was my third day in New York. I ended up moving from the hostel in Harlem into a rather lovely one in Williamsburg, Brooklyn which is l…

It's 4am, I've just had a shower and I'm fully dressed. Managed to get a few hours sleep after my mammoth 20ish hour trip from Auckland but not enoug…

Yes, thats right, I'm in Kaikoura and good job I decided to spend three nights here because the whale watching boat was cancelled yesterday. So this …

Aaaargh, I just wrote this whole post and then internet explorer died. How dare it! So this'll be brief I'm afraid. I've been in New Zealand for a w…

I've been in New Zealand since Monday and so far I'm having a pretty good time. I mean it's bloody cold and feels just like winter in the UK but the …

Well, tonight is my very last night in the fantastic Sydney Central YHA. I've had a fairly restful time here, I went off and saw the Opera House and …

Well...bit of an update. I did indeed spend a day visiting the rainforest which I really enjoyed. We saw some ridiculously huge strangler fig trees, …

Well, several nicely pampered flights later, here I am in Cairns. The hostel I'm at is huge; it has 60+ rooms, a pool, two kitchens, a laundry a…

Singapore airport is absolutely fantastic. I'm currently in departures using the free internet, I just watched a movie in the free movie lounge and I…

Bagus means good by the way. So yeh, as predicted I have had a highly uneventful couple of weeks since my last post. Many a day spent lounging on the…

Greetings all, This will be a short one, largely because I haven't been doing anything very much! Having done a quick VISA run to Singapore, from whe…

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Second update...for the next 4 days I was driven, along with Rob, Alice and Pete, across Flores to a village called Moni, near the Kelimutu lakes…

Apologies for the slightly odd title, but all shall be explained... I spent 4 days and 3 nights (could have spent night 4 on the boat but 3 was eno…

For the last few days I have been on the lovely island of Gili Trawangan, the largest in a group of three islands off the north-west coast of Lombo…

Well, its my fifth night in Ubud and despite the lack of social life I've had a pretty good time here. I've had a couple of decent murder mysteries f…

Because I bloody well am! There appears to be no nightlife in Ubud and rather than hostels, its all groups of bungalows which don't have communal are…

Well, the last few days since Nick left have been spent lying around with a rather nasty bout of flu. Probably aggravated by some rum and cokes on Fr…

Well, since my last update I have mostly been relaxing and enjoying my last few days with Jesse, who sadly has now left for home via a family thing…

I cannot possibly begin to describe the amazing diving I have done over the last three days, it was absolutely spectacular. So I shall just give a qu…

Well, I have arrived in Semporna. The last few days have been fantastic, not only did I see both orangutans and proboscis monkeys at their prospe…

Well, a bus, a plane and two more buses later and I'm at Sepilok in Sabah, Borneo, home to the famous Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary. We spent last nigh…

Well, today I have been away for exactly two months and it has absolutely flown by! I'm in Kuala Lumpur at the moment, mostly sightseeing and relaxin…

Tour over, I'm now back in Kuala Lumpur. We have our final goodbye meal tonight then tomorrow I'm returning to backpacker-town (street full of hostel…

I have stepped into a postcard. The perhentians are absolutely beautiful; the crystal blue water, the white sand, the blue skies, the palm trees.... …

I'm in the jungle :) The oldest rainforest in the world in fact....Teman Negara national park in the north east of Malaysia. We're staying in a sma…

On the 4th I waved a rather sad goodbye to Thailand and took a 19hr bus trip to where I am now, Kuala Lumpur. Had a lovely few days with Jesse at the…

Well, this is my second evening at Ao Nang, a beach resort in Krabi. Its quite unlike everywhere else I've been in Thailand in that it feels rather a…

Well, one somewhat trying journey later I am in Krabi! Famous for beaches and popular with other tourists, not just backpackers, I can't wait to find…

Greetings lesser spotted Englanders (or Welshers....) Well here I am on the beautiful Koh Tao and it's rained nearly every bloody day. Pfft! It's th…

Ok, I think I'm going to start with my most recent activities and work backwards, because I haven't updated this for a few days have I? I return…

Sawasdee Ka folks! A serious amount of travel later, here I am in the lovely Kanchanaburi. I got the overnight train to Ayutthaya, where I arrived …

Last night was the third night in a row I just couldn't get any sleep. I have no idea why; I've spent plenty of nights in this dorm and have normally…

Hmm, well lets see, I guess I haven't updated since I got back from Pai have I? So here's what I've been up to.... I spent about 2 days in Pai stayi…

Well, there was no accomodation to be had in Chiang Dao and since I was considering coming to Pai anyway, here I am! Mark, Lorna and Kylie who I met …

Well, where was I? Sunday was fairly uneventful, I took a songthaew up to Wat Doi Suthep (big temple on a hill) with australians Oscar and Mia who I …

Well, has been a busy couple of days! On Friday I did Flight of the Gibbon, up in the mountains near Chiang Mai. The scenery was breathtaking, I'll p…

Having some problems uploading photo's to here so if you want to have a look they're on Flickr, my username is Bethan.hull Did the gibbon thing toda…

Yes, yet another update! You must all be getting rather bored of my ramblings now. I'm trying to put photo's on Flickr at the moment and its taking a…

Well....last night I trotted off to the Night Market about a 20 minute walk away. It was a typical tourist market with the same stuff on most stalls …

Sawasdee Ka! Well, I have arrived in Chiang Mai and already love it about 100x more than Bangkok. My hostel is fasntastic, its extremely clean and p…

So, I arrived last night. Was a stupidly long flight followed by 3 hours stuck in the craziest traffic you've ever seen. Didn't sleep on the plane so…

Well, Friday was my leaving night out from work. Everyone was really lovely and gave me some Thai Baht as my leaving present. Which will be very us…

Happy New Year and all that jazz. Christmas was ace, I got almost everything on my list of travelling stuff. So present opening consisted of 'oooh, a…

Well, today I had a thrilling trip to Go Outdoors in Coventry (god Coventry is a dump!) to get my rucksack. Tried a fair few on and the best fitting …

I apologise if it takes me a while to get into this blogging business, haven't really done much in the past but I'm really keen on keeping everyone p…