We left Koh Lanta on the 16th-ish of January and we funnelled up through Bangkok to Chiang Mai in the north. We took the sleeper train with two friends: Tony was flying back to England from Bangkok, and Sarah was heading north with us. We were going to meet Faye a supposed cousin of Martin's, - his Dad's step-sister's niece ...or in other words Martin's step-aunt's niece ...or his step-grandmother's grandaughter ....Hmm! Yes, well, we came to the quick conclusion that they were not related, but still family!! So we had a quick few days in Chiang Mai where we managed to get to the big temple, Doi Suthep, on the hill. We were delayed temporarily while we waited for about 10 Thai men to change our flat tyre on our motorbike at an army check point. On our return back into town we were stopped by police only to find out that the Queen and her entourage were going to be passing. So we waited in the freezing cold (the sun had gone down by this point) for about an hour wearing our helmets to keep us warm (double click the photos for the pic). We must have looked very classy to the Queen - a bunch of foreignors waving to her with their bike helmets on! When we finally got back we squeezed in some shop-shop-shopping at the night market, all before heading on a trek with cousin Faye, her friend Lorna and our friend Sarah. *Mush
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