I am now over two weeks into my TESOL course and I cant believe how quickly it is flying by! Despite my misgivings I am actually really enjoying it and will be sad when it ends. The company who run the course are brilliant and so incredibly helpful. If I decided I was staying on to get a paid teaching position, they basically get you a job and help you find accommodation. They have said that even if I wanted to come back in a few months, or next year, they would ...

Oops. Following all my previous ranting about how pants it is being a vegetarian, at Bangkok airport waiting for my flight to Cambodia...i had a huge craving for pastrami....and i couldn't take it anymore....i had to give it to temptation.....and so ate a huge sub with ham. And it was fantastic. No guilt - just pure unadulterated meat pleasure. And I haven't looked back since! The two flights here from Thailand were fine, and not at all delayed like I had sus...

Oops. Following all my previous ranting about how pants it is being a vegetarian, at Bangkok airport waiting for my flight to Cambodia...i had a huge craving for pastrami....and i couldn't take it anymore....i had to give it to temptation.....and so ate a huge sub with ham. And it was fantastic. No guilt - just pure unadulterated meat pleasure. And I haven't looked back since! The two flights here from Thailand were fine, and not at all delayed like I had sus...

My final few days in Chaing Mai. Everyone tells you that Chaing Mai is the place to do a cookery class, so even though I've done one before I enrolled in another! This one was at a place called Thai Farm Cooking and it was great. I really didn't want to do an all day thing crammed into a little kitchen in the city so I chose this one which is an organic farm about an hour out of the city centre. It was truly gorgeous...a completely peaceful cookery school with b...

Chaing Mai, Northern Thailand. After wasting away another day of my life in Bangkok I finally was able to board the night train up to Chaing Mai. The train was fine, uneventful and freezing. We arrived at Chaing Mai around 10 in the morning and I headed straight to the guesthouse I had booked called Spicy Thai Guesthouse. I had been recommended it by loads of travellers I'd met so I thought i would check it out. And i am so glad I did! I LOVE it! It's essentiall...