This morning was spent starving ourselves for the self-induced food coma we were going to enter later on in the afternoon at ZAbb-E-Lee Thai Cooking School. We entered the class with our favourite dishes in mind and we were not disappointed. First stop was the market to learn about the different ingredients that we would be using and what we could substitute them with in England. Then we headed straight for the chopping boards. Our chosen dishes were: * Spri...

Hug Elephants was today's activity, a sanctuary which cares for the elephants with no harm and no riding. Although many people believe that these beast should not have human contact, our guide explained the benefits of this as it stopping them causing harm if human contact does happen. The truck ride to the sanctuary was a bumpy one on the roads, never mind the dirt tracks once we hit the jungle. To ensure that the elephants are not caused any distress by noi...

It should never be this hard to buy flip flops in Thailand but it has taken a few weeks since Char's were stolen to find some decent ones. If you can call Havianas copies decent? But £2.60 isn't a bad bargain until we find some real ones. The Thai's don't know how to compete with a Yorkshire approach to bartering....we usually just repeat the price we would like to pay until the trader gives in. A four hour city walk of Chiang Mai Old Town was a good way to stre...

Unable to find out any information on when the border to Thailand opened we woke up at 5am to make the border at 6am....the border didn't open till 8am. Fortunately when the border control guys turned up for work they let us through at 7.30am. A very simple crossing. Nick and Erica met us at the border so we could share a tuk tuk to Chiang Klong where we could get our bus to Chiang Mai. Nick and Erica got off in Chiang Rai but we are hoping to meet up with them a...