Blog 31 At the end of a 44 hour over land journey we departed on the night ferry into the darkness and I placed my first foot on a Thai island (long awaited with excitement). But at 5am the island was still sleeping, so we found some beach lounger and tried to have a nap, unsuccessfully. After booking onto an open water diving course we found our beds cosily waiting with air con, and we slept. Much like Vang Vieng, Koh Tao has given itself whole-heartedly to t...

Blog 24 A night in the commuters town of Chiang Khong was fairly uneventful, but a good chance to catch up on blogs and cookbook recipes. A Mexican birthday meal treat left Naomi a happy 31 yr old. Love Bryn and Jo x

Blog 23 We didn't spend much time In Chiang Rai itself but it was a pretty friendly nice town really. Were now traveling with a 30 year old couple from Buckinghamshire, Naiomi and Rob. Naiomi celebrated her 31st birthday with us with an evening of drinks and watching the Arsenal v Liverpool match in the bar. Free birthday tequilas made for aching heads the next day. We arranged to do a 2day trek in the national park surrounding Chiang Rai. It was a fab but ...

Blog 22 So I'm writing this first part of this blog whilst in bed after a days silent meditation and Buddhist teachings. Honestly the most relaxing but weirdest day of my trip so far. The silence thing is really difficult, some people are more 'hard core' than the rest of us! The monks who are running it are fine with us whispering as long as we don't disturb other people's peace. Another day of it tomorrow with the morning wake up gong at 5am, so bed time for...

Blog 21 WOW what a journey...138 km, 2 mopeds, 3 people, 0 accidents, 5 Hours, quite a bit of altitude, millions of hairy corners and 2 very sore bottoms and we arrived in sleepy Pai. We were planning on doing a yoga retreat but it fell through but actually it was perfect. It meant more relaxing and catching up with washing clothes and blogs etc. Pai is a hippy town with the best tea house Asia has to offer (my own personal opinion). You can pretty much choos...