Chaing Mai - cooking course and markets. So the day after my adventure with the elephants me and Kara had signed up for a full day of cooking which started bright and early with an introduction to the garden where I learned all about the ingredients they use in Thailand and how they grow - I also found out what ingredients I could use in England as a good alternative.Then we headed to the market to buy some things such as noodles and palm sugar, me and Kara anno...

Chaing Mai part 2 Elephant training. The second time I came to chaing Mai it was even better than the first, I came back on a 4 hour mini bus which was just as windy and hideous as the way there but this time I had good company in the form of the lovely Stef, we spent most of the 4 hours chatting about every topic under the sun and before we knew it we had successfully made it back to chaing mai and checked into our lovely hostel named the little bird.Little Bir...

Ok so after a difficult 16 hour bus ride up from Bangkok, difficult due to the fact I was severely sick and attempting not to projectile vomit over the highly annoying Russian boy sat on the seat in front who couldn't decide if he wanted his seat up or down and therefore kept banging my knees with every change of mind I made it to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand.I hadn't booked a hostel in advance and therefore spent 3 hours wondering around hoping I could fi...

So I had been to Phi Phi the week before with Kim and although we had a good time, we partied a lot and enjoyed the beaches it wasn't until I went back that I realized how cool Phi Phi is.I arrived back to Phi Phi and had a couple of hours to find a place to stay before my parents were due to arrive, I also went and found my Irish friends Michelle and Siobhan who I had met in Krabi the week before.But all morning I couldn't concentrate, I just kept looking at the...

Krabi Town is a small place in the south of Thailand usually used as a stop over for people going through on their way to Phi Phi - but I had decided that this would be my first stop on my journey alone and I couldn't have picked a better place to begin.I had already been to Phi Phi with Kim (which will be in my next blog when I write about my return to Phi Phi) and we had mutually decided to go our own ways, it was daunting to begin with but as soon as we made o...