We are in Huay Xai at the mo. Basically we have a spare couple of days. As we didn't trek for a few days in Thailand as we planned. ( brilliant for a day, but I decided I needed a roof over my head to sleep- bugs are big in Thailand & there are bats) so we are 2 days ahead of schedule. We have the Gibbon Experience booked on 18th Dec. So we decided to head to Laos & potter around for a few days in the border town of Huay Xi. Which is good actually as w...

When we arrived in Chiang Rai we stayed at Akha River House. The place is run by Akha tribes people & they run Akha Hill House up in the mountains & run trekking from there, which we wanted to do. We stayed there in Chiang Rai that night as truck would come & collect us from there & take us up to the hill house at 4.30pm the next day. So that day we explored Chiang Rai. It isn't very big so we managed to walk around it all pretty much! Then we...

On the road to Chiang Rai. After spending a day & a night in Chiang Mai we are now on a coach to Chiang Rai. We decided we liked Chiang Mai as soon as we arrived. We picked a hotel out of our lonely planet book & got a tuk tuk over to the hotel. Tri Gong Residence. Our room was simple but clean so we were pleased. We went out to explore the city seeing various wat's & more Buddha's! Everyone in Chiang Mai wanted to talk to Dando. A guy from Ph...

Hello! Been in Thailand for 5 days now & finally have wifi! We stayed in the poshest hotel I have ever seen in Bangkok & had a great time. We went to see all the touristy things like the grand palace & the emerald Buddha, we also visited wat pho where the massive reclining Buddha is & wat Arun which was a Khmer style temple which Dando climbed right to the top of! We also visited Chinatown which was fun as we basically wandered around never ...

2 days to go until the wedding. 2 big things happened this week... it snowed! Not very much here but loads & loads elsewhere in UK. So we are hoping for pretty snowy pictures now. Second thing is Dando's splint finally came off. Yay! 8 weeks of it being cast or splinted & now he is free in the nick of time! I have finished work now! Already been off a week (feels like a minute!) Am enjoying waking up knowing I don't have to go to work. Met with phot...