Dear Kate, Martin, Tom and Josh Thank you very much for buying us a cooking class which we did yesterday and enjoyed very much. We have to say that neither of us realised quite how good we both are at cooking before...therefore we would cordially invite you (and everyone else we know) to a dinner party when we are back in the UK. I think a dinner party is where you come round to our house and we cook for you and you say things like 'mmm this is nice' an...

Dear Dragon's Den We would like to submit our application for our idea for how we are going to make millions of pounds. On Monday, we went to a cat cafe in Chiang Mai. We thought this was a brilliant idea and would like to open one in Brighton please. Possibly it might not make millions, we are not sure, but Donna likes the idea of a job where she gets to sit around and play with cats all day so we thought we would do it anyway. The idea of a cat cafe i...

Dear Barbara, Alexandra, Greg and Kerrie Thank you very much for your very kind wedding gift. We decided to spend the money on a Something Different Tour around the countryside near Chiang Mai.Something Different Tours are a unique tour operator; formed from a collective of ex-tour guides who decided to offer something different from the normal 'get on a bus, get off the bus, take a photo, get back on the bus' tour operators that seem so prevalent around here. ...

THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THAILAND PART 1 This was going to be a list of the top ten best things but it keeps growing and growing. 1. Chickens in trees - I still cannot believe that chickens can climb trees 2. Candy cheese - It is like cheese but is also like sweets. It is like combining two great things in one. Why has no one ever thought of this before? 3. Weeing in swimming pools - This isn’t unique to Thailand but it is far more common to get drunk in a swi...

Dear Matt, Paul and Barbara Thank you very much for your very kind wedding presents. I know we were meant to spend some of the money on a romantic sunset boat cruise in Portugal but unfortunately we didn’t get round to it so chose instead to spend it on a yoga retreat in Chiang Mai. It is quite beautiful here. It is very relaxed and chilled out. It is all set in a little woodland in the hills surrounding Chiang Mai. They grow lots of vegetables here and have ...