Travel Updates

Pai is a popular backpacker destination in the mountains. It is hot in the day (34 degrees today) and cool overnight (about 13 degrees at the moment).  We are staying at Baan Pai Riverside and have a little bamboo hut over the river.  Pete is very happy with his hammock Read more…

I just love the way that the Thai’s sometimes spell English words on their signs.  In Doi Inthanong an official National Park sign stated that the water “dripples” down.  I guess a combination of drip and dribbles. Here are a few others we have seen so far:

Today I went on Fred”s tour with 11 others from our guesthouse “ZZ Guesthous’.  Ufortunately Pete missed out as he had been up all night coughing. So we headed into the cool mountains (14 degrees) to see some beautiful waterfalls, a cloud forest complete with the King’s and Queen’s Pagodas, Read more…

The old walled city of Chiang Mai is just bursting full of temples (or wats).  We went around a handful yesterday but stupid me forgot to take my sarongs to cover up in order to be allowed to enter the temples (women’s shoulders and knees must be covered).  Luckily some Read more…

So whilst travelling I didn’t want to add to the mountain of plastic bottles that our countries can’t cope with. Here you will see a photo taken at the edge if a road in Bangkok highlighting the problem. So with a very kind donation from Marie Skillicorn and Keith Skillicorn Read more…

Click for photos.  So our flight with Emirates was via Dubai and continuing the theme of not really looking like backpackers – we got a free upgrade to something like premium economy.  Ooh we were very happy upstairs on the Airbus with lots of legroom and just the two of Read more…

Here is Pete as we landed at Liverpool Airport on Monday.  “I thought we were going to be travelling light” he said, “I feel like a pregnant snail!” (click to see the photo)