Its its that mid-festive time, when you realise you have spent up, eaten too much, drank more than too much and the cold is starting to get a bit annoying. We have had an awesome Christmas in Krabi, spending Christmas Eve sunset snorkelling ion the coral reefs with Nemo fish, and having a sunset barbeque watching THOUSANDS of bats leave there caves to help sant eat all the mice pies and brandy, in the dark we swam in phosphoresecnt plankton that lights up as you ...

Back in Bangkok, again after a while of not updating this, so heres the last few weeks for you... We left the North of Thailand with our friends and travelled across the Mekong into Laos. Laos is a country made entirely of bamboo huts, where a simple bus journey of 150km takes 6 hours and where stepping of the beaten track probably results in stepping on a landmine. In Luang Namtha we headed out on another trek, this time in kayaks (which i am even worse at cont...

Back in civalisation, after a pretty awesome three day trek in the North Thailand jungles, with some even more awesome people. A bumpy truck ride North of Chiang Mai (there seems to be a theme to the road journeys here) took us to the elephant camp, where we had a short trek on an elephant....God bless cars, elephants are not the most comfy, speedy or airconditioned of transport. A four hour uphill trek from there, via a waterfall, took us to the Lahu village an...

Im not quite as good at downhill mountain biking as I assumed I would be, 1600m up a mountian, at cloud level, we started the 35km route down, which was going pretty well, until my bike got bored of me and decided I needed to say hello to the floor. My knee got on very well with it too, I needed a bit of time to recover before we headed into the jungle for the trek so we went to Pai. Its been described as part of the "hippie trail" in Thailand and af...

So we settled in Chiang Mai for a while, a nice change of pace after once again passing through through the scam-ridden, lovely little city of Bangkok. We arrived there (at the bus station) after another sleepless over nightbus journey to argue with several taxi drivers who wanted to charge us 300 baht for the '25km' journey into town, none of whom liked being told its was only 4.5km and should cost around 120 baht....(i'd done my research). Eventually we managed...