Sorry i've been off the radar for a few days. Managed to get myself up from Ko Sammui and met Ruth at the airport. Had a quiet night in Ko San. Actually stayed a night at the same guest house as Rory, but only one night as was a total sh1thole. Sat moved to Ko San Palace hotel which was sweet and then spent the day firing round all the attractions on the back of a tuc tuc. Driven by Lee and his brother Sky. Total comedy as Lee only has one eye and was doing some V dodgy driving while Sky gave a running commentary. Managed to get a sweet new compact camera from IT World. Basically a 8 story mall full of tech shops. V hard not to spend more money, but Ruth was with me and didn't think she would appreciate spending her 2nd night in Thailand trailing round tech shops with me looking at expensive shiney things:) Another quiet night in Ko San watching English bomb out of the world cup.

Sun bumped into Sky again and got taken on one of the craziest tuc tuc rides of my life (Sky much crazier than Lee). This mofo was crazy, cutting through 5 lanes of traffic, going down one way streets the wrong way, on the pavement. At one point he has the tuc tuc doing a wheely, power slides. All good fun but pretty dangerous. Got dropped off at the Grand Palace and spent a couple of hours walking round there taking a few hundred pics. But as it was Sun it was stupidly busy. Got a bit annoyed and very hot as forgot to bring trousers so had to wear a hired pair and Ruth had a hired shirt. All very fetching for the pics. Went to see the reclining buddha which is about 70m long...probably best of all the Buddha that we have seen.

Now in Chang Mai in the North of Thailand. Got the night train up and took about 14 hours. Pretty strange experience but not hard. Left Bangkok at 8ish and arrived here about 10 this morning. Booked up for 3 days of mountain trekking starting tomorrow morning. Basically bit of hill walking, some white water rafting, floating down rivers on bamboo rafts and riding on Elephants. Staying at a nice 3 star so not exactly cheap street but good after Bangkok.

Spending the rest of the day wandering around Chang Mai which is really quiet after the craziness of Bangkok. Got 3 temnples to see and need to get a kayak bag for the water action.

Next post will be on 6th or 7th as will be up a mountain till then. So until then my friends,

C :))