The last day in chiangmai and were so glad to have packed our bags the night before, were not hungover but we got back quite late and are so tired. We have to check out by 12 and spend the day by the pool, it's baking hot all day and I burn a little. We grill Paul a little for the lack of Thai food he has tried, he says " I've had loads of Thai food, I had that spicy spaghetti the other night", classic. We say our goodbyes and get on the coach at 9pm, long night...

I wake up drunk and am still drunk at 4pm. Tonight will be interesting if we get on the sauce. Marc comes around to say bye and Jordan and I get up to see him off. In all the chats with people about travelling, no-one warned me about the sadness when new friends continue with their travels. Marc is a really nice guy and I hope we keep in touch and I see him again someday. We chill by the pool then head out for another bash at songkran with ingrid, martin and th...

Songkran officially starts today even though water was thrown at Jordan yesterday. It rains till around 4pm so we all catch up on some much needed sleep. Marc, ingrid and the 4 of us walk to town defenceless as we have no waterguns, before we hit the main street some kids pounce and a few driveby's occur. We buy some guns and get involved. The scene in front of us is unreal, both sides of the street are filled withpeople with waterguns, buckets and large drums o...

Woke up fairly late after another steady night which turned into a session. It's a pool day today and really hot. Managed a few hours sunbathing before I came to the room for a nap, I'm getting less sleep out here than at home. Went back put to the pool and the loud French kids were at the pool, damn kids. Got chatting to a Dutch girl called ingrid, seems nice but paul instantly jumped in there with both feet staking his claim. Well see how far he gets as were...

Really early start today, getting picked up at 8 to go on the zip lines. Fall asleep in the van and are awoken by the driver rallying up a farm track, it feels like were driving through the actual jungle. It's pandemonium at the zip line place, no idea what we' supposed to be doing. We get put into a group of 20 people and head to the ziplines. On our way the obligatory dowsing with water by the local kids takes place, knew I should have brought a change of clot...