After very little sleep we got up at 7.00am and checked out. We decided that the polite approach would be best to avoid any more trouble and apologised to the owner for the disruption. She clearly wasn't happy with us but thankfully pursued it no further. We walked for a little while as we now needed somewhere else to stay for tonight and decided to pay a little extra and stay in a hotel. We had the cooking course this afternoon, which was great fun. There was...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This morning, we wanted to try and get a bus into Lampang, which is one of the neighbouring towns. The walk to the bus stop took about half an hour and during that time we didn't see any buses on the road, which didn't fill us with much hope. We arrived at the bus stop and waited and after 30 minutes of waiting still no bus. As it was now getting late in the day we decided to give it up as a...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> So after four different modes of transport, we arrived in Chiang Mai at 5.40am. We walked around the town for a while waiting for people to open up for the day. We finally found somewhere to have some breakfast and set off again looking for a guest house. We spent the rest of the day wandering around the town and in the evening visited the night market which was great, The road is closed to t...