The time has come; the planning, preparation, saving and anticipation has ended and I’m out of New Zealand. The initial port of call is Thailand, for a couple of weeks of beaches, beers and thirty degree heat. Following a 12 hour layover in Melbourne due to a technical fault, I landed in Phuket at 2.30am where I was picked up by my pal Phil, who’s been here for a month or so and is in South East Asia for another. We cruised on the scooter […]