After an extremely long journey we finally arrived in Chiang Mai late Monday evening. The flights were excellent, plenty of leg room, food and drink (free) and copious amounts of germs from mum's neighbour, who coughed, blew her nose and sniffed from Dubai to Bangkok (oh forgot the sneezing) Wow what a place we are still gob-smacked. In fact this morning we are totally f****d, you may ask why, well here goes - we checked into a very nice rustic Thai guest house, lots of wood, loads of tropical plants, a real feng shui atmosphere, complete with stepping stone paths through goldfish ponds and hammocks in the garden. Great we thought, our room was double with en suite, well nearly, our room was a converted outhouse our ensuite was outside the front door next to outdoor
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