After 2 hectic days of activities (how did we ever work 5 days a week?) we decided that Friday was going to be a chill out day. We woke up late, I spent the morning updating our blog and Edd had a mid morning nap.Edd's superglued sandals were coming apart again and he insisted another tube of superglue and maybe some duct tape would keep them going. I announced that we were going to the Central shopping centre in Chiang Mai, as I was not going out in public with ...

We were checking out of the Yak guest house today so had to get up early and pack our bags. I ran down to a Thai house that advertised laundry services and paid for them to do our washing while we were out for the day. (35 Baht a kg, we had 2.5kg's). We were collected from our hotel at 8.35 by a Thai woman called Benny. She was also very enthusiastic and I was starting to think it was a Thai trait. We hopped on the back of a truck thing and there were 6 other peo...

Edd went in search of food early as we were being collected at 8am. I stayed behind to pack our bag, as there was a list of things we needed to take with us for the day. He came back with a croissant and a coffee from the 7/11 as everything was still closed and we munched on our breakfast while we waited to be picked up.We were collected by an overenthusiastic, young Thai guy. It turned out he had verbal diarrhoea and the hour journey to the elephant camp was goi...

We woke up late, but I was feeling significantly better even though my stomach still felt like it had been badly beaten. We went to 'The Hideout' French Cafe down the road from us, for baguettes and I opted for the veggie one. I was embracing my new no meat policy. We stumbled across a cockatiel in a (very small) cage and I knelt down to see if it knew any songs. She started singing a random tune repeatedly and we then broke out in duet. Edd ordered me a cappucci...

We had booked a Thai cooking coarse for today, but cancelled it and moved it to Thursday so I could spend the day in bed. I was peaking. I hadn't eaten properly since Thursday and needed to get something in my stomach, even if it wasn't going to stick around there that long. I decided I felt like I could probably eat a McDonalds cheeseburger and maybe a fries at a push. There's something about ketchup covered cardboard thats appealing when you're not well. Hangov...