I've been away for just over a week now and I've had a fantastic time.I'm now in Chiang Mai but I'll describe Bangkok some more first. The day before I left Bangkok I thought it would be a good idea to do some typical tourist sightseeing, so I went to lots of temples with a Dutch girl I'd met the day before. Navigating through Bangkok was challenging, if only to fend off the tuk tuk drivers. We went to Wat Pho, Wat Arun and the Grand Palace. O...

Bangkok is crazy! At the airport I got chatting to a couple of Irish guys (both of whom had never left Ireland before!) who stayed at the same hotel as me for the first night. We got in a tuk-tuk, which was driven by a crazy Thai guy from Chiang Mai, who proceeded to drive off doing a full 45 degree wheelie and laughing hysterically at our reation! He took us to some "bars" which didn't exactly match our request for a decent place to ...