Day 6 30th July 2013 Today we head off to Chaing Rai which is Bonds home town. On our way we have a stop at the Elephant conservation centre. We arrive at the elephant centre and are taken but giant golf cart to the platform where we will get onto our elephants. Each one has a wooden bench on its back for two people and one by one each couple get on their elephant and start heading off towards the jungle. I'm the last to get on and as our group has an odd n...

Day 5 29th July 2013 Up and down to breakfast for 08:00 then gab the bags from our rooms and check out ready to catch the public bus at 09:30. We wait for the bus and as it pulls up it looks kind of full and then we think that everyone is sat on one side as we have seats booked. No such luck as we get on board we find there are only 4 seats for all 16 of us. We get off and Bond talks to the conductor explaining that these seats have been booked for days. The...

Day 4 27th July 2013 Up at 07:30 quick shower and then down for breakfast. After breakfast we catch a local taxi which is more like a lorry with benches along the side to the old town. Here we jump off at a bicycle shop and get our bikes which will be our transport for the morning. We set off to tour all the temples in Sukhothai park. Our first stop is to see a statue of one of the Thai kings and Bond gives us some of the history before we get 5 minutes to ta...

Day 3 27th July 2013 This morning I go down to breakfast about 08:00 with Tracey before meeting the group at 09:00 to explore some of Bangkok. We head off out and catch the local bus to the flower market to visit the temple for the reclining Buddha. Although iv been here before its interesting this time to hear some of the history which Bond explains to us as last time I came here alone. We wander round the temple for a while before heading down to the river...

Day 2 26th July 2013 We arrive in kaula Lumper around 07:30 and have time for me to find the smoking room for a quick cigarette before getting our connecting flight to Bangkok. We sit down by the gate and I get the cards out and we decide to play snap. Tracey deals the pack out and we start and we go through all our cards without one snap! We board out flight and once in the air I fall asleep. We are both totally knackered due to not getting much sleep on ...