Hotel White House Chiang Rai

... guesthouse owned by the Akha hill people, 23 km outside Chaing Mai with free pick up and drops off. It was advertised as &#8216;getting back to nature.&#8217;<br><br>So, after a day walking round Chaing Rai and checking out the local Wat (temple), which was quite interesting (the Emerald Buddha, which is in the Grand Palace in Bangkok, was found here) we were collected in the back of a pick up truck and taken up a winding narrow road into ...

... a bit more consideration and as I&#8217;m on a roll getting all this out and my finger tips are now square-shaped anyway I may as well carry on: <br><br>When I took the long overland journey from Laos to southern Thailand last year to take my teaching qualification it was never with the intention of using it to get a &#8216;job&#8217; in a school somewhere and to slip back ...

So in Huay Xai we tried to lie in until a reasonable time, but there was some building work next door. Awesome. Luckily EW is feeling more human, though perhaps she'll never be fully healed after the boat ride... To cross the border you have to get stamped out of Loas take a ferry across the river and then get stamped into Thailand, so this si what we did. It was indeed very easy, but everyone going our way was local and everyone going the other direction was westerners, I ...

... to pay the bill, i waited and waited and finally went to find the staff, they were all snuggly asleep in true thai fashion. *theres one thing that i can never get used to.... no toilet paper! its a mystery to me. there are mostly squat pans (very strange also) and several water devices to wash one self after. but for some reason all the people seem to be dry on thier trousers when they come out of the lav?!? with no toilet paper and hoses to spray ...

It is Kitty's 5 month birthday today. Here are some pictures of her and other stuff that I have been seeing over the last few months. Kitty is well and happy. She is starting to laugh sometimes at things. She loves looking a a H'mong wall hanging that we have. She still sleeps in bed with us. She can roll over onto her front now but cannot crawl yet. She loves me holding her and taking her for a walk. She drinks water from a bottle and can hold that ...

The last day the Not For Sale group were in Chiang Rai I organised for them to go to Doi Tung. Aom from Mirror Foundation came as the guide, and Kitty and Kanchana came also. Here are the pictures: More information is available at: www.doitung.org

... monument currently shrouded in black plastic is what locals know as the clock tower. Chiang Rai is the home of Khao Soi (Alison's spelling so it must be correct) and there is a small noodle shop just behind the Wangcombe Hotel run by a lovely Thai lady who understands more English than she speaks. Her patience led us to try all three of the dishes on her menu and they were all delicious. It was also there that we discovered that Thai dishes do not all come automatically ...

... I never thought me making fun of her art work would hurt her so much. Some People!!!! At the club there was a Irish DJ, he pulled out all the Old Irish songs, I don't know what all the other tourist thought of the Dublin's and the Diddle Do Diddle Da. The highlight of his performance would have to be ,Put Them Under Pressure with Jack Charlton, The song from Italy 1990.What a Jem.I might just have a ...