Hello everyone, We are actually in Laos now but I'll fill you in on what we did during the rest of our time in Chiang Mai! We had quite an interesting experience last Thursday night... we were in our room at about 11pm and there was a storm outside. Ryan was in the middle of skype-ing his dad when there was suddenly a massive bang and a sound of something crashing to the floor just outside, then the power went off. Lightning had struck the electric pylon which ...

Hello everyone, So on Sunday we boarded the train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. It was a sleeper train similar to the one we went on on the way to Phuket. Luckily it turned out the pervert from the train station wasn't in the bunk next to us much to our relief! The journey took around 15 hours and was a slow and rickety ride. We slept quite well though and I was nice and cozy in my bed. Every now and then I'd look outside to see mountains, rice paddies and pretty ...