Bridge over the river Kwai

Snake n Rice , Mmmmmmm nice

Found this on my bed when we woke up, extremely dangerous and bloody huge

THE BEATLES ARE PLAYING, THE BEATLES ARE PLAYING TONIGHT!!!!!

Or so we were told by the lady at the guest house we found in a little town, do you want to see them? Oh yes please say we, after all they believe in reincarnation around here and her name was Apple, honestly

So after a shower and a beer off we go with Apple to see John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Disapointingly it was the Beetles that were playing not the beatles it was a Stag beetle fight, the tournament had lasted 3 days and this was the last night, a lot of gambling takes place on these fights and prizes given out for 1st 2nd and 3rd place there is an official judge and it is shown on a big screen with tierd seating.

We were the only westerners there and were the centre of attention for a while, even to the point of interviewing us and getting me to do some commentary, photos were taken of us and we assume we made it into the local paper but we will never know.

I,m going to put some photos up but I have to explain the rules, the contest takes place on a log and both beetles are released in the middle, the beetle that pushes the other one off the end of the log wins, as far as we could figure it was the best out of 5 bouts to decide the winner, that beetle goes forward to the next heat, OK got that

Some river crossings

Trail ride to the Burmese border

Just a quick post to put some shots up of Christian, Pon and myself on a 3 day ride up in the mountains, Pon is Thailands enduro champion and we named him the Pain master, 3 days of it but he really knows the mountains round here, Bruce stayed in Chiang mai making sure the bikes got fixed

And some more

And some more

Some photos

Chaing rai and Chiang mai

Cleared the border from Laos to Thailand, real easy border and headed to Chaing rai to get new tyres for the bikes, met a great guy who ownes the cat bar there , Sam shit hot guitarist and all round good guy, he really did his best to get us the tyres but in the end we had to head off tho Chaing mai to get them, but not before we had a few good nights at the Cat bar, we had a great Jam session with Sam on Bass and me on Rythm and harmonica, we had 4 backing singers, really great english girls, very preppy but a great laugh, finally found some youth who know how to party!!!!
Youth is wasted on em.
Sam if you read this the email adress you gave wont work.
We have met some great guys here in Chiang mai, we have new accomodation tomorrow and new tyres aswell, David from gt-rider.com has been a fountain of information for us, it was strange to meet up with him as we have been using the maps he creates all through Laos, he,s quite famous round here, we bumped into him totally by accident when we rushed into a bar to watch the Moto GP.
I have some more great photos but as usual either the pooters playing up or more likely I,m useless.
I hope to do some more tomorrow, P n B