Had to get up early as we needed to move our bags to our new hotel. It is about 10 minutes down the road but was still a mission with our heavy backpacks and it didn't help that we slept through the alarm! Then we were off for our Thai cooking course. We were picked up and taken to Chiang Mai's largest food market. Met the other people in our cooking group, there were only 7 of us. After buying the ingredients we headed North to the lady's house where we coo...

Arrived in Chiang Mai about 7am. Got off the coach and were pleased to see our backpacks had arrived too! Our first impressions of Chiang Mai were not what we expected! We had to wait for our transfer to the guest house, we think they may have forgotten us!! It is much quieter than Bangkok, although still lively. It is very laid back. There are a lot more travellers and bars. The restaurants and the food on the street look more appealing and we may even be...

Got up early and had breakfast at the hotel. Got picked up at 6.15am! We went to Damnoen Saduak floating market. We arrived and waited for only a couple of minutes for our 'James Bond style' boat. This however was long enough to see a lady fall out of a boat into the water. This scared us a bit but we got in anyway! When we got to the floating market we had to get out of the boat and walk! It was too hot to sit in a boat with no shade. We got back to th...

Today has been an experience!!! Neither of us slept well last night and funnily enough woke up at the same time hungry! We think we are now over the jet lag though. Started early this morning - had a lovely breakfast in the hotel, Thai's even seem to have noodles at 7am! We were picked up at 7.30 and arrived at The Grand Palace at 8.30, it was boiling! Our tour guide was brilliant. We then went to a gem place, we were shown how they are shaped. We tried o...

Today has been an experience!!! Neither of us slept well last night and funnily enough woke up at the same time hungry! We think we are now over the jet lag though. Started early this morning - had a lovely breakfast in the hotel, Thai's even seem to have noodles at 7am! We were picked up at 7.30 and arrived at The Grand Palace at 8.30, it was boiling! Our tour guide, Suki was brilliant and so was the Canadian lady we met along the way! We then went to a gem ...