Bryn There, Done That

Hello! Bryn here. Last time we left you we were in Chang Dao in Northern Thailand. We are now on Ko Tao in the south. I’ll fill you in on the in between... We made our way to Pai (pronounced ‘bye’ not ‘pie’) after 762 winding, narrow, terrifying, often hairpin turns. Mitch had a big grin on his face the whole time (he was driving) as I think he pictured himself as a mariocart character; I was just trying not to throw up. The booking.com app pulled through again and we settled into a very cute little bungalow just outside of town. [When we first started the trip we thought we would be using more hostels, however, it seems to work out about the same to get a private room or bungalow for two people]. Pai is small (about the size of the Bench for those Merrittonians), but has a very cool vibe with more restaurants and bars than one could possibly visit in one stay.  Mitch’s favourite spot in Pai. I had done some reading and one of the recommended things to do in Pai was to take a...

Sawadee Krup! Mitch here.     W at Rong Khun (White Temple) Okay, Bryn figures it’s about time for another blog update; I feel that we still have a bit more adventuring to do to justify another post... but I do as I’m told.  Currently, we are at Cat Bar in Chiang Rai watching an ignorant, drunk “forang” be surrounded by lady boys at the bar across the street. Here’s how we got here: We left the Gold Coast on the last possible train to the airport, which meant we were about 4 hours early for our 2:30am flight with Emirates.  On the positive tip, we were able to find some comfy couches to sleep on for a couple of hours before boarding our more or less empty plane to Singapore.  As such, we were able to get a significant amount of sleep in this haul between legs of our trip and landed in Bangkok with some life left in us. Bryn’s family friend, Gerard, rescheduled his flights to meet us in Bangkok so we could spend the night at their sweet ap...