After leaving Koh Lanta, I flew to Chiang Mai where I will be spending my last month. Yep, I fly back to the UK in just a month! I cant believe it’s been almost 6 months already! It has gone crazy quick. I am looking forward to seeing my family again though and the UK summer isn’t so bad!

I will be carrying on with language classes here and also meeting up with some of the girls from the shelter where I volunteered last year.

It was a nice feeling coming back here. It almost felt like I am back in civilisation! I have always been a city girl and while I really enjoyed island life, it feels good to be back in the city. Chiang Mai is a great city. It has everything you need, but without the craziness of Bangkok and still with bags of culture. Life here is relaxed and everyone is so friendly. And it is so cheap to live here! I went for dinner at a local Thai/Burmese restaurant on my 1st night and ordered rice with stir fried pork with garlic for dinner and it amounted to 30 baht, the equivalent of 60p! I felt like I had just robbed them! The pound does definitely stretch a very long way here!