Trekking adventures! Day 1 (10.3.11) For the next three days Poppy and I had signed ourselves up to a mini trekking adventure. We were excited and really looking forward to some time out of the city, away from tuk tuk's and massage parlours. We had already packed as lightly as humanly possible in tiny backpacks which were supplied to us (not brilliant but compact at least) and we were pretty set to go. However we were not ready at 7:45am when reception called...

Not surprisingly, after a day of spicy food and late night drinking our ensuite was not having a very good time the next day. We (including Sacha - learning to scab free stuff from the best) managed to RACE down to breakfast, with only 10 minutes to spare, piled our plates up as high as they would go (I got three plates) and refuelled ready for another fun filled day in Chiang Mai. After a little admin - buying our train ticket to Bangkok - we were at Chiang M...

A super busy day which involved a hell of a lot of eating and drinking. At 9am Poppy and I found ourselves sitting around a very low table, tucking into a nice cup of tea at the 'Asia Scenic Cookery School'. It was a lovely little family home with two classes of 6 people learning how to cook traditional Thai dishes. For 900baht we were going to learn how to cook Spring Rolls, Chicken and Cashew Nut Stir Fry, Green Curry, Banana Fritters, Pad Thai and Chilli Coco...

So it was Monday - which meant I had to finally try and sort my passport stuff out. It was a fairly boring and stressful morning with no real help being offered by the Chiang Mai Consul. There was nothing they could do, so I just had to make my way to Bangkok and try and sort it out there. Brilliant. The only good thing to come out of that morning was meeting a lovely (though a little creepy) taxi driver who took pity on me and bought me a yakult and gave me a ...

So, most people would obviously assume that after a rather eventful evening where one's passport went amiss, one would spend the day trying to resolve it. Well, not me. It was Sunday and I was more than ready to head off into the jungle for some zip lining and abseiling with the gibbons. As you do. So after Pops picked up her new laptop case and we apologised to Sacha profusely for having lost him the night before, I was in an air-conditioned jeep making my wa...