wellllll hellllllllllllllo everyone!!! sorry its been a while not sure how long, but im just been enjoying the last week f***ing loads and er yeh just haven't had time for u guys back home..... dunno where i got up to on the last emails but me and nix left ko chang (chillout land), back for the s***ty s*** holes of 'bang'kok (as all the ladyboys say), and to be honnest enjoyed more the 2nd time round..... minus the dodgy travelers sickness i got (that was all it was, even thou at the time i was convinced i had malaria!) and was violently sick and pooing and f***ing hot and cold and yeh u get the rest.... eatting off a dodgy street dudes chicken kebabs...... about 5 min before that thou we were walking down koh san road which is a long travellers market haven, and most stalls are illegal...... so we walk up to this one kebab vendor and order our chicken, and stood there waiting, and suddenly other dude shouts sumthing in thai then within a f***ing shot pegged it, along with soooo many other dude vendors on the street...... the thai police racked up to do a 'suprise' visit, and they all shat themselves...... but in doing so barged past me and pretty much all the vendors ran over nikki... she had a few bruises!! f***ing crazy people out here!!!! anyway so after my violent vommiting we got a night train to chiang mai which is in the very north of the country, which is just stunning up here and less on the old ladyboy front, much to my disapointment! the night train took 13 hours but we went 1st class and had a lill cabin and bunk beds and a sink, and the thai train guy was relly sweet and we just had to ring a lill bell and he'd be at our door like a shot "yes yes what u like?!?!" and all that! ne ways so we racked up to chiang mai and stayed at this dodgy as place called Rama Guesthouse...... warning to up and coming travellers... dnt go there..... basically theres nothing that we can pinpoint that was bad, just the women who owned it was seriously crazy and just shouted at us, and kicked us out early and everytime we stepped out of our room, she was trying to sell us sumthing! arrived in chiang mai on the monday whioch was the kings 75th birthday..... and no joke, they worship the king out here more than u could possibly imagine.... sell orniments to do with him, pictures of him, symbols of him, clothing representing him.... they r mental...... if u say ne thing bad about him u get arrested... no joke. ne way so getting outta bangkok was good cause everything shuts and no bars or ne thing r open..... so we wud have been bored s***less. but chiang mai, even though its the 2nd biggest city, they had like a long week festival celebration, far more interesting and civilized. just candles everyhwere fireworks, every bar is open..... which we were very happy about... as long as we can get our chang beer we happy ladies! so we went on a river cruise on monday afternoon, just me, nix and the driver on this f***ing cool relly low boat, long and thin, cruising thru chiang mai... which may i add is real pretty place..... being very touristy, he then took us to a herbal farm, and we tried all these random herbs and had a herbal drink and a loada fruit made into the shape of our boat.... the thai are so proud of all the random crap they do, so me and nix sat there and smiled looking relly impressed! hired out pedal bikes on tuesday which was a laugh.... oh my budda, they where s***e! take sumthing ur nan would have had back in her day, and break it abit, make it squeek and that pretty much what we had..... we where pedalling as fast as we could round stupidly busy road in chiang mai on a bike that at any moment could just fall apart, but was all good...... the last four/five days i have to say have been the best of my trip so far thou....... trekking!! its was f***ing amazing!! drove like 3 hours up towards pai (full on rainforest zone) and ate sum food in one mountain village with the villages..... but they r scabby people.... like always after ur money, the lill 5 year old tried to steal my digital camera.... but all that u take in ur stride! they love westeners thou.... sounds sly but because we have money, they kinda respect u, and like love the whole white skin thing going on. (the girls in thailand actually buy whitenening cream, where we buy tanning cream..... bit weird! appartently the whitter u are the more money u have, because u haven't been a labourer out in the sun). so we starting trekking from there and just trekked for 2 hours.... but in rainforest thats a hardcore workout..... up incredibly steap hills, down incredbibly steap hills, over various terrains etc etc..... until we reached our next village for the night.... which was awesome! had amazing food, and the lill kids do thai village dancing for us and just got heavily drunk on the old thai whisky and coke! the people on the trek where sucha a laugh as well. 2 frenchies, 2 solvinians, 1 swiss, 4 english (including me and nix), 3 irish, 1 scottish/aussie, 1 japanese, and then the 3 thai trekker people (the 3 coolest thai's ul meet)! the 2 irish mates were f***ing hillirious! just swear after every word, in there southern irish accents, and aiden got wasted and wondered off in the middle of the night into the pitchblack mountain village and starting westling with the farm animals and fighting the dogs!! all good the thais laughed it off in the morning! the next day we trekked for about 4 hours with a village stop and waterfall swim in between which was amazing. lots of naked bodies in tropical waters... yummy yum yum.... went elephant riding in the afternoon which was amazing!! they're such amazing animals and so cheeky too. our elephant decided he was hungry halfway thru and dragged me, nix and adam into a whole f***ing tree whilst he was picking out a particular branch.... all pissied ourselves laughing! stayed in another village that night and again got jolly on the whisky and we all felt it the next morning horribly...the wooden beds didn't help either!! so we trekked in what was the most sweltering heat up a mountain, which looked out over the villages and rainforest... incredibly high. and then back down again to go bamboo rafting! rafting down a river stood up and a few bamboo sticks is a lill dodgy but hey i was all up for the crack. ne ways our rafter dude on ours shouted duck, and u had to duck under the branch then over a branch.... anyway nikki concentrated on the lower rather than the higher and got smacked in the head and now has sum dodgy red branch stamp on her forehead!!! i pissed myself so much i nearly fell in! we're all back now in chiang mai and everone that was cool decided to stay a couple of nights, hang about, so we all went on a big binge up last night and got merry with the butch thai ladies! honnest dnt mess with thai women..... the bar lady told us that a guy left with out paying, so she got all her friends on the street to get him, so he came back and made out he's paid and she f***ing wacked him round the head with a glass vodka bottle and pretty much knocked him out!! at that point we all paid pretty quickly and got out of there!!!!! right well ive rambled on far too long for my own good, feeling like i do today, so hope this all keeps u entertained and updated!! like to hear from back home, whats everbody up to... hows the xmas preparations /1!!!?!?! doesn't even nearly resemble xmas here, which im loving.... hate the hype of xmas back home!!!! anyhooooo.... love u lots always..... louche xxxxx