Wednesday/Sunday – 15th/19th July, 1998. Wednesday 15th July, 1998. We met Lisa from Denmark at Ben Guest House and she was a great friend to us. She later introduced us to her Thai friend Khun Daeng who owned the Montri Hotel and J.J. Bakery. She was helping him design a new bakery that he was [...]

Tuesday 14th July, 1998.  We left the hotel at 07.30 hrs and had a long walk out of town (4 kms) on highway 106 which is the old road from Lamphun to Chiang Mai. A very pretty walk with little open countryside. We entered Chiang Mai province and immediately we saw “Amazing Tall Trees” on [...]

Sunday/Monday – 12th/13th July, 1998. We ached all over and to get over this, we walked around Lamphun. I had never seen a moat before in Thailand. The local people were so friendly and the town was very attractive and peaceful with some beautiful Temples. We had a great view of the town and the surrounding [...]

Friday 10th July, 1998. We left Lampang at 07.30 hrs and it was a long walk out of town in rush hour (8 kms). Highway 11 soon became construction so we had our own road again. Started to climb into the hills and the road construction was very bad for us and for car and [...]