So we're still in the fair city of Chiang Mai and it's safe to say- We love it! We've both been busy since our last entry. I am now a qualified Thai masseuse. I took a course at The ITM School of Massage and have passed my Level 1 certificate. It was really good fun but so much to remember. While I was there one of the Thai teachers helpers took...

Now in Northern Thailand. Its a bit chillier here than in Bangkok but am sure we'll survive if the hotel didn't have such hardcore airconditioning! We ventured into the night bazaar whichwas as mad as i remembered it to be. Now that we're actually living on the street where the stalls are we are in the midst of it all. We took a trip out to Chia...

The sun, shining through the holey bamboo walls, along with the cacophony of roosters made for an interesting wake-up call at 6 am. I rolled over and went back to sleep for a while longer, not wanting to waste precious relaxing time. We are being especially well fed on this trek. For breakfast, we had either green tea or instant coffee, toast w...

Along with 8 other backpackers and 2 local guides Dylan and I hopped into the back of a pick-up truck for a ride to a waterfall 40 minutes outside the city of Chiang Mai. The beginning of a two day trekk depp into the jungle of northern Thailand. We had a fantastic group: 2 girls from Austria, 2 guys from Holland, an older couple, and Matt and A...

Sunday 5 November Although we were exhausted from our trek, we ventured out to explore the special Sunday market for which there must have been thousands of stalls selling all sorts of everything. The market was there as part of one of the many celebrations taking part across the year to commemmorate the 60th Anniversary of the coronation of the...

Chiang Mai is the main northern city in Thailand and known as a base for activities like hill-tribe trekking. We spent 5 days here out of necessity rather than choice - our initial plan was to spend 2 of those days in the nearby hill-town Pai but when we got to Chiang Mai we learned that Pai had been hit so badly by recent floods that there was ...