Good day from non snowy Thailand! Well after the tourist trap of Chaing Mai we decided to get a mini bus 2 hours north to Pai for a change of scenery. But its not a simple straight road, its up and over a mountain, the road was a crazy rollercoaster of bends and gradients, its was like the worlds worst and slowest rollercoaster. I just held on, wedged my kness against the the back of the seats and concentrated on not hurling, the movement was non stop. Two hours...

Hi all So we were supposed to be practicing Monks for 4 days this week at Wat Suan Doks meditation insight programme - well...it turned out to be 2 days! Chris and i were excited about the prospect of learning a bit about Buddism and meditation skills but it turned out to be just a bit to serious for us. When we arrived at the meeting point we had a good look around at our fellow students and realised fairly quickly that we stuck out like 2 sore thumbs. Dreadloc...