Hello there! After escaping the rain to update my blog and to feed my facebook addiction we thought we had been in the internet cafe long enough for the rain to have stopped. Wrong. Thus we legged it across the road to the nearest restaurant- an Irish Pub no less- and still emerged looking like drowned rats. However after noticing they had the Olympic closing ceremony on we watched intently for the London 2012 presentation. We were not disappointed. (David Beckh...

Bonjour! Lesson 22: It doesn't just rain in Thailand- it pours We're currently sheltering in an internet cafe as 2 mins ago it was boiling hot even though it was about 6pm and now it is absolutely chucking it down! WARNING: This is likely to be an epic blog in order to do our epic day justice :-) Rewind 24 hours and 2 pants and I went to the night market to finally indulge in some shopping :-) Lesson 23: Shopping in Chiang Mai is as dangerous as the electric...

Hello again! Lesson 20: Asking a taxi/tuk tuk driver to take you to the train station is effectively asking them to drive like a crazy person on speed. For the second time this trip I have felt like I was going to be squashed alive! Well we made it to Chiang Mai after a much smoother overnight train than the previous one to phuket. Met some German guys on th train- taught them s***head (the card game) and they equally entertained and annoyed us. By the time ...