Hello Just some notes about what else we did in Chiang Mai... Had a massage - a traditional Thai massage which involves being pummelled and kneaded by a little Thai woman. A bit weird - especially when she twists you so that every vertebrae in you back clicks. I was thinking of doing a course in Thai massage, but it looks like hard work and I could imagine the results of doing something incorrectly would be quite major! So instead, I tried my hand at... Jewel...

Hello from Thailand We arrived in Bangkok weary and blurry eyed, dazzled by the shiny-ness of the new airport at 6am. We knew our time in Bangkok was limited (day and a half!) so the taxi route was our first insight into the city. Nice car, smoother roads than we have been used to. Needless to say, I was asleep in the first 5 minutes. Oops. Arrived at our accommodation Shanti Lodge (Shanti, Shanti, Shaaaantiiii, as we used to chant at the Ashram) and had a ...