“I Took My Mum Backpacking With My Girlfriend – To Celebrate Her Being Cancer Free” - video Dailymotion

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Credit: SWNS / Becca Wolfenden  A mum is backpacking around Asia with her daughter and her girlfriend – and has been partying on the islands to celebrate being cancer free.  Kate Gearing, 69, was invited to join her daughter, Nessie, and her partner Becca Wolfenden, both 27, on a once in a lifetime trip to Thailand.  Kate was given the all clear in January 2022 after battling breast cancer and the couple planned a trip for her to join them on.

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00:06 Kamatha's in the most exhausting travel day going from the UK to Thailand.

00:09 We are taking Nessie's mum on a mini backpacking trip island hopping around Thailand to celebrate

00:14 her surviving cancer so it's a pretty big deal.

00:16 Also, she wants to become TikTok famous and we kinda think this is why she agreed to this

00:20 trip.

00:21 But we're not off to the best start and it's kinda all our fault.

00:23 Anyways, let's start from the beginning.

00:25 Because of where we live, we have to drive 5 hours from the highlands in Scotland to

00:29 Edinburgh airport to catch our Qatar Airways flight to Doha.

00:31 Luckily, we have a family member near Edinburgh where we can park our car which saves us so

00:36 much money.

00:37 Our first flight to Doha took about 7 hours, it went by pretty quickly.

00:40 Then we had a layover there for about 3 hours.

00:42 We have just got to Doha and we're heading straight to our gate even though we have a

00:46 3 hour layover because it is huge, this airport.

00:49 We have been late for flights before here and we don't want to chance it again.

00:53 But this time, luckily we didn't have far to go and we actually got to see the airport.

00:56 It is so beautiful and there's so much greenery.

00:58 Time to catch our next flight to Phuket in Thailand which took another 7 hours and we

01:02 arrived at 7am Thai time.

01:04 And to be honest, both flights were totally fine although none of us got much sleep.

01:08 Okay, this is when things start to take a turn for the worse.

01:10 So we've just arrived in Phuket after about 20 hours of travelling.

01:15 We're so exhausted but the travelling doesn't end here because we are taking a ferry all

01:19 the way down to Kuala Lumpur, getting a taxi because we can't wait for the bus because

01:24 it would take too long.

01:25 Because we were in such a rush, we also did get a SIM card in the airport.

01:29 It cost us 950 baht each.

01:33 We got a 30 day unlimited SIM card.

01:35 You can get it cheaper.

01:36 Head out of the airport and go to a 7-11 but we just don't have time for that.

01:40 Honestly, we should have stayed in Phuket for a night or two to recover and get some

01:43 sleep but we were determined to catch the 11am ferry to Kuala Lumpur Island which is

01:47 way way down south near the Malaysian border.

01:50 Backpacking granny, what's the plans next?

01:52 Where are we going?

01:53 We're going on a 5 hour boat trip.

01:56 And how are we going to get there?

01:57 Hopefully by taxi when you arrange it.

02:01 Do you know how much that'll cost?

02:02 800 baht.

02:03 Oh well done!

02:04 Ok perfect.

02:05 Are we ready?

02:06 We are.

02:07 We're just heading out of Phuket airport to get our taxi.

02:10 We paid at the stall that offers taxis and mini buses 700 baht to get to Rasadapur which

02:16 is not too bad.

02:17 They looked up on Grab and it was about 800 baht so we're pretty happy with that.

02:21 At this point we were super exhausted.

02:23 We had been up for at least 20 plus hours but we kept telling ourselves that once we

02:27 got on the ferry it would only be 5 hours until we arrive on Kuala Lumpur Island.

02:31 Or at least that's what we were told.

02:32 We booked the tickets in advance on tigerlineferry.com.

02:35 They cost us £61.17 each one way.

02:38 It was also super super full so we were all squashed together on the boat for 7 hours.

02:42 We did arrive to a beautiful sunset but we were really really exhausted at this point

02:46 and we had little to no sleep in a day and a half.

02:48 To get to our accommodation Nessie then had to drag her suitcase across the beach and

02:52 I'm not going to lie, Granny and I were very happily trotting along with our backpacks.

02:56 This beautiful island is one of our favourites in the whole of South East Asia.

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“I Took My Mum Backpacking With My Girlfriend – To Celebrate Her Being Cancer Free”

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