We had a brilliant time in Chiang Mai. Everyone told us that we'd love it there and they were right!!! Day 1 - The Thai cookery course. We opted for an evening course rather than a full day course. There were 6 of us in total plus our cooking teacher 'Perm'. Perm regarded himself as a bit of a comedian and though his jokes weren't all that funny the fact that he laughed hysterically after he'd cracked one made you laugh as well. The cooking course was held at ...

Well we've had an interesting few days…. We decided to visit Kanchanaburi on a 3 day, 2 night trip and I can only describe it as organised chaos! We should have realised before we went as when D went to the travel office to jot down the itinerary the lady in the office told him that he musn't write it down as it could change - mmmm! It started off OK we were picked up by minibus from our accommodation and taken straight to the war graves cemetary at Kanchanab...

We left Bangkok on Tuesday morning early, well 8am. A chap arrived at our hostel and ourselves with another few people were escorted in the way of a human walking bus around a few other hostels collecting people on the way to our pickup point to be collected for real. We then headed off by air con bus to the ferry point at Laem Ngop, which took about 6 hours with two break stops inbetween. We then took the ferry (took about half hour) to Ao Sapparot on Ko Chang...

Bangkok Good news the washing is back and it is all there, in fact, I have acquired some additional items a childs pair of underpants and two male pair of underpants! There was only one casualty - a pair of white linen trousers which came back a fetching dirty grey colour. It is so warm here - normally you want to sit in the sun and get a tan but here you fight for a place in the shade! We have at last done some culture,we have visited the Grand Palace - to en...

Oh my god - how warm? The sun isn't shining but there is a constant film of sweat over us. D has to change his t-shirt twice a day! We arrived at the airport at 4.30pm and it was 30 degrees. We've now been here 3 days and we've stayed in as many hotels - fortunately we can stay in this one now for 3 nights before we head off to the island of Kho Chang for a week of rest and relaxation - well we deserve it! The last few days have actually been quite stressful as...