so after a few days of thailand, i have decided that if you love noodles and rice, you come to thailand, and if you dont like them and want to loose weight you also come to thailand!!!! i never want to eat them again!!!! EVER! breakfast lunch and dinner baby! So im now in the north of Thailand, much nicer, i thought i liked bangkok, but i actually didnt really its so dirty and smells, the air is so cleaner up here and theres greenery and its amazing! in bangkok you walk down the street for like half an hour and you have a shower and see all the dirt float away, minging!! oh god and tuk tuks caraz, we took one on sunday night and was doing wheelies...mentalists!!! to get to chiang mai we took an overnight train, liked to call it the "party train" ha which it sort of was, bit of a laugh! one of the best nights sleep had in ages, like being a baby again and getting rocked to sleep :) when we arrived it was like yes i can breathe again!! we nearly missed the train thpo, we were still standing onthe platfrom at 5:59pm when the train left at 6...running with a 90litre rucksack not easy! so we went elephant riding, wierdest thing ever, you get used to it and love it, and the elephants just want bananas and sugar cane constantly theyre so cheeky! they took us al through the hills which was great. we then went bamboo rafting, so two people per raft, sitting on the raft we were just saying how relaxing this is floating down the river on a piece of wood, when the "raft" man and the guy i was on it with gave eachother a evil look, and decided to capsise the raft....THERE WERE SNAKES IN THE RIVER!!!!! impressed nooooo! and we went down a waterfall on the wood, was such a fun ride! but got VERY wet! so we then went back to the hotel, thast evening went out for dinner (erm more rice! blurr) then theres this massive night bazaar, didnt manage to get all the way round it so going again tonight!! i could buy soooo much stuff for so cheap but i have no where to store it, and im pretty rubbish at bartaring because you just think why am i arguing over 10p it doesnt matter!!! so im going to try again tonight to do better :) im about to also embark on a three day trek! oooo....will report on that when i get back! ha! xxxx