We ride together, we die together, bad boys for life..... So Tuesday 7th June we were accompanied by 4 amigos from Chiang Mai (Caroline, Owen, Jeff, Elsten) and headed to a little town called Pai, about 3 hours drive away. It wasn't the most comfortable journey in the world up the winding roads but eventually we made it. We got off the bus and looked for some cheap accommodation. We were lead to some huts across a rickety bridge and paired off into them for £2...

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting... After a week in Thailand, I think it's safe to say that we've settled in well. We're also taking on a bit of the local lingo, and definitely beginning to appreciate the concept of 'Thai Time'. Thai Time is different from normal time, and revolves around the concept of estimating that a task, trip or pretty much anything can take between half and triple the original estimation of time to completion. Our sleeper train from Bangkok...

Well they don't call it Bangfanny... So we're on the train from Bangkok to Chang Mai and it's probably as good a time as any to write the first (of many hopefully) of our blogs, so here goes. We arrived at Bangkok airport after what can only be described as one of the best sleeping achievements known to either of us: take off - dinner - 10 minutes of a film - Pete falls asleep for 10 hours - breakfast - landing. Done. Josh was less than impressed. We got to ...