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   So...how’s the hangover? 
   
   That’s the question on the world’s lips after news of Middlesbrough lads Phillip Boyle and Jamie Blyth’s last-minute trip to Thailand made headlines across the globe. 
   
   But - perhaps surprisingly - the pair are feeling pretty dapper. 
   
   “I’m feeling okay now,” says Phillip, speaking to The Gazette after their booze-fuelled jaunt to Thailand. 
   
   “I was worse when we came!” 
   
   Jamie and Phillip with his upgraded bag 
   
   “It’s been crazy,” says 33-year-old company director Phillip from Nunthorpe. 
   
   The Gazette first broke news of the story on Monday after learning that the pair - who started their Friday night at The Southern Cross in Marton for a ‘quiet pint’ - had ended up jetting out to Thailand in a drunken haze. 
   
   But the boozy plan paid off and - despite a few moments of hesitation as the drink wore off - they’ve had the time of their lives. 
   
   “It was around the bend there,” says Phillip of the holiday resort of Pattaya. 
   
   “It’s been non-stop as we were only there for a couple of days. 
   
   “We went out for meals and to bars and didn’t really sleep that much. 
   
   “If we were there for a week or so we might have travelled around a bit. 
   
   “I have fallen behind with a few things at work though,” admits Phillip. 
   
   Phillip had initially jetted out with just a carrier bag stuffed with a few T-Shirts and pairs of boxer shorts. 
   
   But he did manage to upgrade - buying a new backpack and a pair of trainers whilst out there, that were unfortunately swiped. 
   
   Phillip forced to wear work shoes after trainers were pinched 
   
   Pal Jamie, 33, a rigger from Marton and instigator of the trip, said: “On the way out there we sobered up on the flight and thought ‘what have we done!’ 
   
   “We were a bit confused in Abu Dhabi at the stop over but just thought ‘We’re here now so we should just make the most of it'. 
   
   “The guys that we knew from school were shocked to see that we’d turned up! 
   
   “It’s been great.” 
   
   Jamie, who has a new girlfriend, said: “She was a bit annoyed, but it was only two days - a short break. 
   
   “She’s just been laughing about it and thought we were daft.” 
   
   And Phillip has some advice for others wanting to follow in their footsteps. 
   
   “I would recommend it - it’s been brilliant fun.” ||||| Anyone who sat through the mess that was The Hangover Part II remembers that Bradley Cooper and his brohams woke up in Bangkok, with one shaved head, one facial tattoo and one chain-smoking capuchin monkey. Phillip Boyle and his friends managed to avoid the worst aspects of that movie, but the part about going out drinking and waking up in Thailand? Yeah, they did that. 
   
   Boyle and several friends went out on Friday night for a few drinks, picked up a few more drinks at a gas station and then stayed up all night throwing back the finest alcoholic beverages that Northern England has to offer. At 11 the next morning, Boyle’s friend Jamie Blyth started asking if he had his passport, then called a cab to take the whole hungover group to the Manchester Airport. Boyle told GazetteLive 
   
   When we got in the taxi we didn’t even have flights. It’s a last minute bad idea – but one of those bad ideas that turns into a good idea. I nearly canceled when [we were] on the way to Manchester Airport and realized this is all a bit rash and nothing was booked. 
   
   But they followed their best (worst?) instincts and bought tickets to Pattaya, Thailand, two seven hour flights interrupted by a layover in Abu Dhabi. Boyle said that he didn’t even pack a real suitcase, he just stuffed some t-shirts and some clean underwear in a grocery bag. After 14 hours and 6,750 miles, the group landed in the beachside city, where they planned to stay until Tuesday. “No one’s misbehaved,” he said. 
   
   Phillip Boyle went out for a few quiet beers and ended up on a plane to Thailand http://t.co/xO6KgmjppO pic.twitter.com/vEEnf4DGrS — HuffPost UK (@HuffPostUK) March 24, 2015 
   
   British teenager Luke Harding pulled a similar – if shorter – stunt after a night of drinking. The then-19-year-old was “well and truly plastered” in a cab heading home when he realized that he’d never seen the Eiffel Tower. He told the cabbie to take him to the Manchester Airport (which must have special boarding area for Drunken Travelers), bought a $150 flight to Paris and staggered onboard the 6 a.m. flight. He didn’t fully realize what he’d done until he woke up, beyond hungover in a bathroom at Charles De Gaulle airport. Harding said 
   
   When I woke up I initially didn’t know where I was but then I remembered a bit about being in Manchester airport and booking the flight to Paris – and thinking ‘oh sh*t.’ 
   
   The moral of this story seems to be “don’t drink in the north of England.” At least not without packing a bag first.
target: – We don't want to know how many pills it took to kill this hangover: Two buddies went out for a few drinks at a pub in Marton, England, last Friday. Hours later, they were in Thailand, a la Hangover II. The idea for the spontaneous trip sprouted around 11am Saturday at Phillip Boyle's place. The men had headed there from the pub around 1am for a "quiet night" after picking up a "few drinks from the petrol station," Boyle, 33, tells GazetteLive in a story spotted by USA Today. Friend Jamie Blyth "asks if I have my passport handy and comes up with the idea of us going to Thailand straight away," says Boyle. "Then we got into a taxi he'd phoned and—apart from the short delay of picking up Jamie's passport—we were off." It was "all a bit rash," says Boyle, whose luggage consisted of a grocery bag containing a few shirts and some underwear. The men booked two seven-hour flights spanning 6,750 miles, heading for the beachside city of Pattaya; they apparently "knew some guys from school" in Thailand. "On the way out there we sobered up on the flight and thought 'what have we done!'" Blyth tells GazetteLive. But they made the most of the adventure, which ran through Tuesday. It was "brilliant fun," Boyle says. "We went out for meals and to bars and didn't really sleep that much." He adds, "I'm feeling okay now." The guys admit they did face consequences. "I have fallen behind with a few things at work," Boyle says. Blyth adds his new girlfriend "was a bit annoyed," but "she's just been laughing about it and thought we were daft." (A night of drinking didn't end so well for one Qatar Airways employee.)