We love Chiang Mai! It's lovely here, definitely our favourite place in Thailand. There's a great chilled-out vibe about the place. We're staying in the old town, which is surrounded by ancient brick walls and filled with ornate Wats. There are fantastic street markets on at the weekend so on the first two nights we took a stroll around them. They have decent stalls with handcrafted goods, rather than the usual tourist tat, and lots of street performers: singers,...

On our first day in Bangkok we were so jaded after all the late nights in Koh Phangan and the 25 hour journey we had just undertaken that we couldn't be bothered to do much. We just went to Boots on Silom Road and stocked up on a few things that we needed, such as several packs of immodium (the shame), travel sickness pills and malaria tablets. We were in bed by 9pm and slept for around 11 delicious hours. The next day we went to the Mo Chit bus station to book ...