We were up early this morning and down for breakfast, we then had plenty of time to get our bags properly organised for the trip as we were getting picked up between 10 and half past. We then checked out and waited for the bus, apparently it had come for us at 9.30am but obviously we had not been downstairs ready. We sat until 10.20am and the bus came, there was only just enough space with me taking the front seat. We then drove round for a good 20-30minutes to f...

We did some organising this morning as we're leaving for Laos tomorrow. We got to face time Louisa, Neil and the kids as it was morning for them, afternoon for us which was great. We then sorted things that we wanted to parcel up and send home, and write a few postcards. We set off for a walk to the post office which was only a little further down our street and sent our postcards and parcel. The postage system here is so easy compared to India! After this we vis...

As we hadn't slept brilliantly last night there was no rushing to be up and out this morning. We had breakfast at our place again and did some planning. We have decided which package to take to get to Laos, it'll take three days and two nights to get to Luang Prabang and we've booked the first few nights accommodation there too. This afternoon we went out on the hunt for a phone for James, his phone is now definitely on it's way out, it hardly charges and when it...

It's James' birthday today and he'd decided that after the crazy day yesterday he would like to take it easy today and maybe do some planning in the room. So we didn't rush to get up and had breakfast at our place then did some catching up on emails etc and planning. It's difficult to get presents because you don't want to carry anything else around that's not really needed, but yesterday I did get out to the 7 eleven and get something for him not very exciting b...

Similar to Ko Lanta, the water fighting action starts around midday so we had a lazy morning. Sleeping with just a fan was better than we'd expected so we're going to stick with it for cheapness. We got our bag together and filled our water pistols and headed out. It wasn't long before we were drenched! We walked around the moat in the middle of Chiang Mai, it was the craziest scene we've ever witnessed. Street stalls selling food but the seller armed with a wate...