
Saturday 1st July 2006 Spent the first two nights in the Asia Hotel, which was a bit of luxury after the long flight from London. Which brings us neatly on to the weather. Pissing down and 30 degrees back home. A disappointing start, but sure to brighten up. Watched Ronaldo get Rooney sent off. We [...]

Wednesday 12th July 2006 After 14 hours on the train and about 5 hours sleep arrived in Chiang Mai. The home of trekking. Cooking and massage we’ve managed to fit all of them in during our stay. First 3 days we went on a hill tribe trek. One thing Michelle loves about Backpacking is the [...]

Thursday 13th July 2006 Last day of trek and Bamboo rafting and elephant ridding. Got completely soaked by Germans so Andy and one of the other lads, Robbie decided to race them through the rapids and beat them to the finish. 1-0 to us I think. Riding the elephants was the coolest thing in the [...]

Friday 14th July Had enough of running around so went for a traditional Thai massage, had a great lunch in little street café full of locals. Only English they knew was ‘noodle soup, and fish’. Couldn’t identify what kind of fish but good and only 30 Bhat. Saturday 15th July Cookery course at ‘Thai Chocolate’. [...]

Sunday 16th July Early start with a mini van ride to the border, at his point we realised that we had been really dim, as we would be doing the same journey again tomorrow when we make our way to Laos. Hmmm, what a couple of ‘40Watts’. The Long neck people village was a great [...]