Homeward Bound
For the first two years of the trip we had assumed that we would be flying home from India. With four departure points to choose from it’s fairly easy to More… →
Category Archives: Thailand
Getting Around Bangkok
The good thing about getting around Bangkok is that there are so many options, and local transport is extremely cheap compared with western countries. The biggest problem is the traffic, More… →
Bangkok – the last stop
We’d been quite fussy about choosing a place to stay in Bangkok as we wanted to end the trip on a high note. It would be the hottest time of More… →
Chiang Mai – outing to Doi Suthep
We’d been meaning to go up Doi Suthep ever since we got to Chiang Mai (the looming green mass to the west of the city is pretty hard to ignore), More… →
Hmong New Year Festival
If I hadn’t followed a Facebook group for expats in Chiang Mai, I’d never have known about the Hmong New Year festival taking place for Chiang Mai’s hill tribes. I More… →
Bo Sang – the umbrella village
A village dedicated to making umbrellas – crazy, huh? They’re not even very useful umbrellas since they’re made of paper! Bo Sang lies out on the eastern fringes of Chiang More… →
Chiang Mai life
About a week after we moved into Doi Ping Mansion, the residents’ Christmas party took place. Food contributions were invited, but it seemed that drink would be provided – sure More… →
Settling in to Chiang Mai
Once again Air Asia proved the cheapest way to get from A to B, in this case Kuala Lumpur to Chiang Mai, in half the time and at half the More… →
How to get a Chinese tourist visa in Chiang Mai
Getting a Chinese tourist visa in Chiang Mai I originally planned on getting our Chinese visas in Hong Kong – it was supposed to be quite easy. But then I More… →
How to Extend a Thai Tourist Visa in Chiang Mai in 2016
Visa regulations in Thailand seem to change every other month, the official government websites are not very informative even when they are in English, and each immigration office seems to More… →