Salutations. (this is Anna) So we've just come back from a meditation course, which was brill-o but will do that in a min. Before that we had a day of pampering and went to a mega fab night market! Bought more stuff we don't really need but is great anyway! We got a thai massage again, determined to better our experience of it and had an amazing one, really relaxing, with gentle music playing and it was even more full on contact! They use their feet alot. S'al...

Hello! Fran again. The day after the elephants (which were so bon) we decided to go trekking. Which was to say the least, interesting. We were already quite tired from the day before and in the car on the way to the trek we both fell asleep, which was not a good sign. We started off by going to a 'hill tribe' village, which was basically one house with a stall in front of it where they pressured you to buy 'authentic' stuff which we had actually already seen in ...

Ground control to all blog fans. Roger that. I'm (Anna) reading an army book about Iraq, it's so good! I finished my last one and I'm on a roll. Fran's read like 10 book and is currently converting latin into arabique or something. As ya do. Anyway since the last blog, in Koh Tao, we had a HUGE 24 hour bus journey up to Chaing Mai which was horrendous - neither of us slept even with sleeping tablets because there was no room on the seats, so we had a curved co...