Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii everyone! Just been chilling out in Chiang Mai for a few days, would be so easy to stay here longer as the atmosphere here is fantastic! The weather is just right and there are so many nice places to just go get a banana pancake and read the paper, its really hard to get motivated to do anything else! I found this awesome little local cafe run by this little old thai lady and I'm there almost everyday just sitting reading for ages! (Bet she hates me! Lol) I've decided against the bungee jump, as after the Oasis gig I've gone way over my Thailand budget and it was either the jump or going to the Gibbon Conversation Project Laos to do ecotourism in tree huts for 3 days, (the best thing is you go from tree hut to tree hut by zipwire and theres a waterfall you swim in etc etc). There are loads of jumps in Oz and NZ so I guess I'll just wait until then! My second day here I organised a cooking course. It was quite bizarre how it came about as I was looking at all the cooking tour places along the high street and ended up chatting to this lady, it turns out she has just started up her own cooking school and its cheaper than all of the oens advertised. So I end up going with her and get a completely private cooking lesson with her in her little thai house for half the price of the really commercial ones! Awesome! She takes me on a market tour and I spend half a day learning dishes of my choice, am now expert in Pad Thai! Yummy yummy! Also I've been to BURMA! How exciting and another little stamp on my passport! Admittedly it was only for a couple of hours to renew my Thai visa but still. I can't believe I've been in Thailand for almost a month now, seems like only yesterday I arrived at my beach hut in Kho Pangan and now I'm miles and miles away in the very North of Thailand. I'm leaving Chiang Mai tomorrow to go to a place called Pai that was recommended to me, its a bit of a hippy settlement in the mountains inbetween Chaing Mai and Chiang Rai and has some fantastic hot springs to bathe in/relax by etc. So more chilling out to do! After that its off to Chiang Rai and then I'm crossing the border to go to Huaxyai in Laos for the Gibbon Trek and then head down to Vientiane to begin my Laos tour. Ooooops and I almost forgot....the sunday night Chiang Mai market, was soooooooooo good! Have defo bought too much, (parcel on the way to you mum) but the best thing was, I didn't spend over a tenner as it was all locally produced and sooo painfully cheap. Got some really nice fisherman pants and beautiful tailored cotton shirts for only a fiver, I love this country!!!!! Oh and also I am eating sooo well here, on a super healthy diet of fresh banana shake, pad thai, tofu noodle soup, endless amounts of water and 15p pineapple in a bag! Oh yeah, not forgetting the banana pancakes - how Jack Johnson! So as I'm going off into the wilderness, don't expect much contact until the 16th/17th March as Laos is not well known for its technological advances. (Still email me my results tho mum and H). Loooooooove to you all Jo xxxxxx (P.S. C - of course I've bought clothes! Have nice new shorts, bag, sunnies, top, fisherman pants......You can take the girl out of England..... )