There hasn’t been much to post about recently, as we haven’t really done anything new. What has happened is that we’ve completely fallen in love with our hostel, Mountain View. It’s run by two couples, one Thai man named Soy and his English wife Chrissy, and one Thai lady named Tip and her English husband, Mike. They are such an honest, trusting and friendly group of people; we can stay as long as we want, and and food and drink we want while we’re here we can just Continue reading
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Mountain View Guesthouse, Pai
Well we hit the jackpot!!
At the moment Sophia and I are staying in a bamboo hut, with a view of (guess what) the mountains; we have a hammock, and a swimming pool – all for the equivalent of £1.50 each a night….!?!?
Pai is an amazing place; we have never met anyone so helpful and friendly. They will stop at the side of the road and Continue reading
Elephants, waterfalls, rafting
We missed the bus.
After setting a number of alarms and quadruple checking the time of the pick-up, we picked up some breakfast rice (very leisurely) and sauntered to the meeting point in order to hitch our ride, only to discover that it had left half an hour ago. After some initial panicking and rice flinging (mainly from Ellen) we decided to negotiate with a tuktuk driver to take us all the way to the elephant sanctuary (1000 BHT). Being slightly less of a headless chicken than us girlies, he offered to contact the company, and they came back for us, so all was well and we arrived Continue reading
Night Train to Chiang Mai
Hey guys, we’re sure by now you’ve all seen the pictures of our Chiang Mai night train experience! Luckily we were able to get bunks together as there were a number of alternative characters in our particular carriage, the most alternative being an Australian guy ‘working on a documentary for the National Geographic’, who began his journey by taking pictures of all the passengers and ended it by Continue reading
Waking up in Bangkok
So it’s 8:00am (ish)… Just woken up in an extremely humid dorm room of The Rainbow Hostel, Kao San Rd – sounds lovely, doesn’t it? – after our first night in Bangkok. I think I’ve woken up listening to the same bar singer that was singing when I was trying to go to sleep – it’s nice to find some consistency!
After a pretty hairy taxi ride in a car that sounded like it only had second gear, and with seat belts, but nothing to plug them into, we finally arrived at backpacker central, Kao San Rd. Continue reading
Pre-flight munching
Just arrived at Terminal 4, Heathrow – filling our boots before the long flight!
This is us
Two intrepid explorers share an embrace!