I arrived at the bus station one hour before my bus left. Actually I arrived even earlier than that as I had to buy my ticket. Why do people always suggest you do that? It’s not like I had to go through customs or have my bag checked. The buses also wait until the exact […]
Read the rest of Friday 6th June – Saturday 7th June. Mae Hong Son to Bangkok
I was dropped off at a guest house in Mae Hong Son by the lake and was pleased that there was a young litter of kittens. I was pretty tired after the rafting and having had a brief look around, bought some food and showered, had an early night. The following day I looked around […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 3rd June – Friday 6th June. Mae Hong Son
In the morning Theresa (who is actually from Ontario and not Oregon as I said before – I think) and I went to the rafting office and waited for the other girls to join us. After grabbing a quick breakfast, we were taken up to the rafting Head Quarters on the other side of Pai. […]
Read the rest of Monday 2nd June – Tuesday 3rd June – Rafting down the Pai River
Early in the afternoon the minibus arrived to take me to Pai. The second person to get on was a girl from Oregon called Theresa who had been traveling with her Dad for 3 months and had just left him. Later others joined us including a nice girl who was meeting friends in Pai and […]
Read the rest of Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June – Pai
I woke up on the train as I always do on trains i.e. not knowing what time it is as I never seem to get a window and feeling like I’ve gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson. The only difference today was that there was an added pleasure of a woman screaming, "Morning, orange juice", […]
Read the rest of Friday 30th May – Saturday 31st May- The train and Chiang Mai
I finally had my last fitting and got all of my clothes, which are amazing by the way. I’ve tried to stop plugging things but the place where I wet was "Oscar" tailors and they did a fantastic job. I spent some time by the hoptel pool, read my book and had a lovely swimn. […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 26th May – Thursday 29th May. Bangkok and the train North
The previous day Nikhil and I had discussed going to a roof-top water park in the city. When we left each other to go back to our respective guesthouses he still seemed very optimistic about our early morning start. I was slightly less optimistic about the likelihood of me getting up the same side of […]
Read the rest of Monday 26th May – Bangkok
Eventually I finally managed to meet up with Nikhil. I say eventuallly as, following meeting him in the guesthouse in Siem Reap we had email contact when I finally grew a braincell and realised he was also in Bangkok. We then exchanged emails, none of which detailed anything helpful like where we were actually staying. […]
Read the rest of Sunday 25th May – Bangkok
On the Saturday I decided to move guesthouses as it was a bit pricey to stay in the twin I had shared with Elisha by myself and they didn’t have any singles available. So, with my budget in my head, I wisely opted for a big hotel, closer to Khao San Road with a roof-top […]
Read the rest of Saturday 24th May – Bangkok
Elisha left to head South to the islands. I had quite a non-eventful day mainly consisting of pottering and sitting in cafes. I went back to the tailors and tried on very basically done clothes. I was to return many, many times subsequently to try, and re-try, clothes on. At first it was all quite […]
Read the rest of Friday 23rd May – Bangkok