We haven’t really visited any art galleries or museums so far, so we decided to go ‘highbrow’ and visit a 3D art gallery to ponder perspective and optical illusions…. There’s not much more to say on this one, just enjoy the photos below!
Being the attentive, supportive kind of person I am, the first thing I did when I heard that Kylie had another scary dentist’s appointment was to sign myself up for a whole day of mountain biking. After dithering about which route would be a suitable difficulty for me, I opted for one of the intermediate downhill routes. It turned out to be just about right – although I confess to wimping out of a couple of the more ‘interesting’ sections. I can thoroughly recommend Mountain Biking Chiang Mai – they’re…read more
In the last four months we have been cycling, trekking, caving, kite surfing, we have done a safari and visited a chimpanzee orphanage. We have sampled more types of cuisine than I can possibly list, we have probably accidentally eaten several ants and Graham has even knowingly eaten caterpillars. But we have not done very much cooking at all. Today we signed up for a Thai Cooking School and it was amazing! The Tom Yum Thai Cooking school is run by Oun and Kae from their home in Chiang Mai….read more
a short play Act 1 [Graham and Kylie have just crossed the border from Laos and are waiting for their night bus in Nongkhai. Graham is sent off to find some ‘bus food’ while Kylie watches the bags.] GRAHAM: ‘OK – that market stall looks just right. I hope they speak English’ [strolls confidently over to the stall] GRAHAM: “Hello” [gives the old lady at the stall a winning smile] “Fried rice?” OLD LADY 1: “สิ่งที่” GRAHAM: “Er…yes…ok. English?” OLD LADY 2: [to Old Lady 1] ” แกล้งคุณ ไม่พูดภาษาอังกฤษ” OLD…read more
Another day in transit, this time getting from Bangkok to Siem Reap in Cambodia. I am generally a fan of train travel, and after having a look at the Seat 61 website (well worth checking out if you want to use trains anywhere in the world) our plans were cemented. This is how we found ourselves on a street corner at 5am. Unfortunately the taxi driver we flagged down didn’t speak any English. Luckily Graham is more alert at that time than most people, and started doing train impressions including…read more
According to the in-flight magazine, Bangkok is also known as the City of Angels or as the Big Mango. A quick Wikipedia search confirms this amusing nickname. To get to our apartment, we hopped on the very efficient and easy to use Sky Train. We are staying very near the Saphan Taksin station, in an Air BnB place owned by the lovely Mac and Noi (from USA and Thailand respectively). Despite the great reviews, we have had mixed success with Air BnB so far, but had high hopes for this…read more
Hello Asia! We landed late at night, but straight away noticed a huge contrast to Africa. There are so many shops, so many things to buy, so many English people and so many backpackers. Its quite a culture shock! We spent our first night in Thailand in Phuket. After two solid days of travelling, involving a taxi, a walk, a boat, another taxi, two flights, two metro journeys, another flight and another taxi we were quite tired. We headed out for a tasty street food meal of rice, chicken and…read more
