We woke up early to the beautiful sounds of a group of 10 Irish boys and girls playing in the pool after enjoying an all-night lock-in. Gemma went for a morning swim and struggled to explain that she’s not always up that early and, in fact, the only reason she was there was because they’d woken her up. They seemed genuinely surprised, apologised for their noisiness and were then quiet for a few seconds before resuming activity, in the way that only very drunken people can pull off. The day’s highlight was the Thai cookery course we’d signed up for. There are tonnes of people doing this in Chiang Mai but we chose one called Ban Thai, which means ‘Thai Home’, following a friend’s recommendation and we weren’t disappointed. Firstly we went with our wicker
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