Chiang Mai is along the Ping River and is the largest and most cultural city in Northern Thailand. The last time we were here we stopped for a week in a guest house with a crazy old lady who spoke hardly any English, but was an excellent sales person by simply giving a brochure and shouting "You book with me now". This time we decided we needed some more r&r time so we chose a pricey guesthouse (£11 a night!!!) that had a swimming pool. The plan was to ...

Sawa-dee-kah! We arrived in Bangkok, excited and full of memories of our last visit here. And it was all going so well until the third night. Once we had been dropped off by our taxi at the end of the infamous Khao Sanh Road, we quickly found our way to our hostel, the same one that we stayed in 6 years ago when we set off on our first big adventure. We had a beer and sat back and watched the streets in front of us as we enjoyed thinking back to the last time ...

We got picked up this morning bang on time at 10am for our ride to the pier for our boat for Langkawi, Malaysia! We don't know Lanta too well but we do know that the pier is left from our hotel not right, which was the direction the driver decided to go, fortunatley he was just making a quick stop at the travel agents before he turned round to go the right direction - wahey we're on or way! About half way to the pier, the driver again turned round and set off ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAIRE'S MUM!! 50 TODAY!! Walked into town this morning to book our transport to Langkawi for tomorrow. We decided to spend a bit more money to get the ferry direct to the island from Lanta rather than go back to the mainland and drive for 4-5 hours to just catch a another ferry to Langkawi. Claire managed to have a quick conversation on the phone to her mum to wish her a happy birthday, but would be able to say more when we video called them thi...

Fortunately Claire was feeling a little better today and she was able to get up. We needed to get to Ban Sala Dan, which is the main northern town on Lanta and about 10 miles away from us to sort out the cash card incident! We hired a really groovy looking scooter. It looked like an old fashioned police scooter from Heartbeat! We made it to the bank at about 11, only to be told to come back at 2, so we got back on the bike and cruised round the island, there ...