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