Thailand
Chiang Mai – 4 days
Take two personal days + a weekend + a cheap AirAsia flight and you too can spend 4 days in Chiang Mai, the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand, and the capital of Chiang Mai Province. It is located 700 km (435 mi) north of Bangkok, among the highest mountains in the country. The city is on the Ping … Continue reading
A Few Days in Kanchanaburi
The girls came over to Bangkok for a week so we took off to explore Kanchanaburi province for 3 days. This was my third visit to the province but I’d never washed as elephant, bamboo rafted or Long-Tail-Boated it along the River Kwai. This is really a great province to visit and I highly recommend … Continue reading
Little Island called Ko Kret
It’s only taken 2 years of living about 20 minutes away from the pier that you can catch a barge from, to finally make a trip to Ko Kret. This little island is in the Chao Phraya River not far from our province, Pakkret. A canal was constructed as a shortcut to bypass a bend … Continue reading
Second Visit to Hua Hin
Always happy to have a 3-day weekend, even if it means lugging your laptop along so that you can finish your mid-year reports!! This time we hired a car – a nifty little Honda Jazz – and drove ourselves down to Hua Hin. Finding our way using google maps was fairly painless, and the signposting … Continue reading
Long Weekend in Koh Samet
Oh my goodness! My last post was July!! What can I say? I was expecting my second year overseas to be a little less frantic – but I was wrong! This year seems so much busier than last year and I’ve been trying to work out why? I have a funny feeling that when you … Continue reading
Missing The Beach No More
We are part way through a fabulous 3-day weekend here in Thailand. Yesterday, May 8th was The Royal Ploughing Ceremony. Earlier in the week it was Coronation Day. There is nothing better than a very short week to help you recharge the batteries in order to make it through the last days of the school … Continue reading
Chinatown
Heading downtown via the RiverTaxis on the Chao Phraya River is one of my most favourite ways to travel in Bangkok. It’s even better when the sun is setting too. Unfortunately that meant by the time we got off at Pier 15 and meandered our way through the side streets into the heart of Chinatown, … Continue reading
Damnoen Saduak
My friend Silvia was in town for just over a week and what better excuse to visitDamnoen Saduak, Bangkok’s floating market in the Ratchaburi Province. In just over an hour and a half we were zipping along the klongs in a long-tail boat (400 baht each), watching coconut buds being boiled, sieved and beaten into … Continue reading
Kanchanaburi Animoto Style
Animoto is an amazing online video tool! In just over 20 minutes I was able to make 3 30 second videos of the rest of the photos I took during our 3 day tour of Kanchanaburi, add music (all creative commons too) and embed them on this blog. All for the cost of $0.00. Gotta … Continue reading
Kanchanaburi Province – 3 Days
Wow, I’ve been so neglectful of this blog – hard to believe that over a month has gone by since my last post. To my dutiful 4 readers …… (yes Mum that includes you)… my apologies. We were fortunate enough to enjoy a rather long weekend February 7th – 9th (well teachers had 3 days, … Continue reading