Kok-o-bang Thankfully another uneventful journey into the airport for our domestic flight to Bangkok. Its the first time I've seen such a big plane (A330) used for such a small journey, it was quite full too, loaded up and pushing back from the gate within 10 minutes also. It was a bit of a shock to the system being back in a developed city, having to contend with using public transport to get from the airport (We used the sky train, although apparently the ex...

Cooking Thai Andy Style The first few days of being in Thailand had left me feeling a bit despondent. The people didn't seem that friendly, the food had been disappointing and I started to think we should have stayed in Laos. We were picked up at 9:15 by a minibus to take us on our thai cooking course (I was hoping this would save the day). Instantly things were much better, our host/teacher MB was happy, funny and full of life. About 15 minutes into the jour...

Hazy Mountain After a lazy morning, lunch was a strange combo of northern curry (I think this was massaman again) with spaghetti. We then got into a songathawn (the thai ones are bigger and have more room, you flag one down on the side of the street and they will normally try to pick up other passengers going to a similar location) that took us to the zoo. From the zoo we then got into the next van that would take us up to Doi Suthep, a mountain on the edge o...

Chiang Mai is an historic city, which was once the capital of the old kingdom of Lanna. The old city is a square kilometre in size, and has parts of the walled city that remain. Around the outside of this is a moat that has had lights and fountains added to it in recent times Breakfast was massaman curry! We spent most of the day visiting 3 museums, as you can buy a combo ticket (locals get it 4 times cheaper though!). The Chiang Mai Arts & Cultural Centre...