So after 13hrs on a train which was very comfortable, tucked up in my little bed, I arrived in Chiang Mai. The only downside to the train was needing a wee twice, peeing in to a hole in the floor and on to the train track is not a nice experience. Chiang Mai from what I saw from the back of a tuk tuk is very much like Bangkok just cooler. The temperature up here is at it's highest when it's about 31, coolest can be down to 19. I've actually had to put a jumper on...

Last night sleeping with just a fan was not a good nights sleep and then add in the numerous mosquito bites that have almost taken over my feet, I was losing the will to live. This morning I had my first breakfast in Thailand as I've usually skipped breakfast it consisted of egg, Frankfurt and bread with a bit of cucumber and tomato. I met an English girl (Danielle) who had been staying here for a week now, everyone else at this guesthouse appears to be French o...

This morning with a very thick head from the cocktails the night before I got up at 6:45am to go to the floating market. What I didn't realise was that it was a 1hr 30min minibus drive there. We arrive and get put in boats and headed down the river (apparently the same boats that James Bond sailed in, in the film 'The Man with the Golden Gun', wouldn't have a clue as I've never watched it). We then swapped boats later down the river and floated through the market...

So day 2 started earlier then expected when my room buddies decided to come home rather drunk at 5am!! Spent the morning with a walk around part of Bangkok, some how stumbling across the 'Golden Mount' which I decided to take a look at, not realising the amount of steps that would get me eventually to the top. Sweaty is an understatement, I was drenched by the time I got all the way up. There were lots and lots of Buddhas on the way up and within the temple at th...

So I arrive at Bangkok airport feeling totally confused about where I am going and what I am doing, but follow the crowd (until I see the smoking room and stop for a nerve calming cigarette). I head to immigration where I filled in the card, no idea if it was correct or not but joined the ten mile queue and hoped for the best. Immigration guy didn't even look at it stamped my passport and waved me through, I was now the proud owner of a 30 day Thai visa. Things w...