At home in Chiang Mai …

Posted by on Sep 1, 2012 in Thailand | 3 comments When looking into accommodation for Chiang Mai we enquired for an apartment as we were having a longer stay here of two weeks or more. We wanted a kitchen to be able to make our own breakfasts and snacks and to make dinner a few nights per week.  We hadn’t heard back from our enquiry with a definitive answer so we were hoping that ‘someone’ would by chance be there to meet us.  The...
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Planes, trains and … tuk tuks

Posted by on Aug 30, 2012 in Cambodia, Thailand | 1 comment and buses, taxis and bikes … so far we have tried a few different modes of transport. Our last morning in Sihanoukville had us hiring bikes to ride to Otres beach the next beach further south. After a 30 minute ride (as we had to go inland to go over the headland) we arrived to a beautiful stretch of beach and had a swim, built a sandcastle, had another swim and a drink before riding back...
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It’s the journey not the destination…

Posted by on Aug 8, 2012 in Cambodia, Thailand | 13 comments It was with a touch of trepidation we started out on our first land border crossing as we had read about many of the scams that exist with this particular Thai-Cambodian border.   Even though the buses are faster we have always enjoyed train journeys  so we set an early alarm for 4am for a 4.30am taxi ride to Bangkok’s main station Hua Lamphong,  a beautiful building built in Italian...
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A week in Bangkok …

Posted by on Aug 8, 2012 in Thailand, Vaccinations | 10 comments Ok well it was 9 days to be exact.  Although we hadn’t made any other plans other than booking the first few nights, we had thought after our first lot of needles we would head somewhere out of Bangkok.  Alas it was not to be. I was feeling so ill from ‘flu that I couldn’t even entertain the thought of packing up and moving on so soon.  So we stayed. Our guesthouse...
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Ouch!

Posted by on Aug 7, 2012 in Thailand, Vaccinations | 0 comments Our long awaited visit to the Thai Travel Clinic to receive our vaccinations was the outing for our first full day in Bangkok. It is a special clinic of the Bangkok Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine at the Mahidol University.  Some people were surprised to hear we were having our vaccinations in Thailand however visiting medical or optical specialists in Asia is not...
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“He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” — Dutch proverb

Posted by on Jul 28, 2012 in Thailand | 5 comments Amen to that!  The last three months packing up, certainly has proved much tougher than I thought it would be so it should all be easy from here…  Today we fly to Brisbane, overnight with David’s sister and family  before heading out from Coolangatta Airport via Air Asia Sunday night.  It was not a very auspicious start however, when the Qantas flight departing Mackay was 3 hours...
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