our last day in thailand and we decided to visit the big teak mansion which was fantastic. we got a taxi there and back and had a look around the beautiful grounds. they have a display of the kings photos which are lovely but the decriptions given are so funny. the mansion itsealf was beuatifula nd huge! lots of rooms and it was built in early 1900's. we then went back and had our last meal in bangkok and lay in bed wishing we werent going. its such a lovely plac...

this was the day everyone off the tour left, however non of our group other than the americal lady actually departed from bangkok so we had a bit more time 2getha. we met bakc up with steph n steve and went to the weekend market in which beki got 4 new tops and steve got a football shirt of milan. it was really wkd though noone wanted to try the local food on offer we had both had enuf of it really but steph n steve i dnt think had got used to it yet (lots more ...

we arrived in bangkok this morning at 6.25 off the night train, we thought we were gettin off at the main station so wud ahve all the time in the world 2 get our bags off, however it turned out to be a little station in which we had 2 mins 2 get off the train with all our luggage. i managed to get mine out and get off the train not realising that steves bag was tied in and that he wasnt behind me. after dropping mine off on the platofrm i ran back and looked o th...

arrived in chang mai after the bus from chang rai 3 hours back without coke or chocky- not impressed! but we were saved by seaweed snacks from ann! we posted our stuff home cost bout 20quid in all pretty cheap for around 4kg!. is 10 quid from india for 0.5 kg! or so we are told. went for a romantic bacon sandwhich yummy. bought some books (owch the pain of paying real money for stuff not thai money) thne got on the night train which steve lucked out and got th...

went to th egolden triangle today, where burma meets laos and thaialnd. in th emorning we crossed over 2 burma n got loads of wkd stuff like dvds n cds for really cheap just hope they work! then travelled to the golden triangle and had lunch over lookingit whilst we all argued about which country the sandbar in the middle belonged to. in the end it turned out to be no mans land. lol then we took a fast speet boat thai style to laos n looked around the market ...