I travelled to Thailand in 2017 as a sort of acclimatisation trip to prepare for India the following year. If India is a 5 on the craziness score, and Scotland is a very mundane 1, Thailand was only about 2. It was far more civilised and gentle than we had imagined and, dare I say it, ever so slightly dull?

The weather certainly didn’t help our enjoyment of the trip. We left cold, grey and rainy Scotland and arrived in hot, grey and rainy Thailand and I am not embarrassed to admit that I struggled to make many photographs whilst there. I was quite happy with the photographs of Thailand that I did manage to create — I only wish I had made a few more. Perhaps I should revisit a different part of Thailand, at a different time of the year, and see if I can get beneath the tourist veneer.