Now that we are far down south on Thailands beaches, it seems a long time ago that I was still in Chiang Mai - however, we did spend a very memorable week there, avoiding cockroach gatherings on street corners and throwing ourselves into the active pursuit of spreading top quality English phrases to the Thai people (more on that later!)Chiang Mai furtherd the theme of the tour for me so far - challenging myself to do things I wouldnt normally do. For this I have ...

My education has taught me many things. One of these was that a cockroach was one of the strongest things on the planet - in terms of the fact it could probably survive a nuclear blast. However - little did the cockroach no it had, until now, failed to factor in one thing in its plans for world domination: me and my trusty size ten sandals! Ok - so far my kill tally stands at 2 - but since our move to the north of Thailand I can only expect this to increase at a ...