We took an overnight sleeper train from Ayutthaya to the famous Chiang Mai. I say it's famous, I'd never heard of it until I went to Thailand but it seems to be the must see place for backpackers. Since its the run up to the Thai new year we just about managed to get the last two beds available on the train by booking tickets a few days before. One was a decent sized bottom bunk with a window, the other a minuscule windowless top bunk resembling a coffin. Bryan b...

I know you've all been holding your breath for the next blog update so here it is... The final couple of days in Bangkok were similar to the first few. Although we did go to a massive shopping centre (I think it was 8 floors!) which had a country of the world for every level. There was London, San Francisco, Japan etc. and it was decorated with a giant golden gate bridge, a red London double decker etc. In England it would have been tacky but somehow it worked h...

Alright - so I will do my token blog just to justify my name being included on it! So I guess I should start at the beginning, which was the lovely 12 hour flight. Boarding the plane we had the pleasure of passing through 1st and 2nd class seats, which was nice of them to show us what we could have had if we weren't on a budget/being a scrooge (of which Sara is so familiar with being!) To be fair tho we had the front seats of our cabin so had all the leg room we...