I’m not going to lie, we’ve found the last month or so really hard. I got a job and we got a flat, which is awesome, but we’re still very far from feeling at home.
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Archive for the ‘Travelling’ Category
Happy Christmas. Kinda.
Friday, December 23rd, 2005Moggie mischief
Monday, November 28th, 2005Well if the shopping centre is my ‘native environment’ then the expensive (and suave) New York Steak house is certainly Chris’! Yes the old cliché is true, food really is the way to a man’s heart.
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Back down under
Thursday, November 17th, 2005Hi all.
Just a quick note to say that after 4 very long days of travelling (long stories that I’m sure we’ll tell!) we’ve arrived back in Sydney!
Very excited to be here, but I’m thinking the appointment I set up with a recruiter tomorrow morning wasn’t such a great idea after all…!
We’ll update the blog with final 2 weeks of Thai goings on very shortly.
Love to you all.
Chris & Bec
MBK madness
Saturday, November 12th, 2005After a crazy 8 hour bus ride from Sukhothai, we were back in Bangkok, older, wiser (arguably I was uglier!) and ready to duel with the locals!
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Leapin Lizards!
Thursday, November 10th, 2005We got to Sukhothai and it had a rather different feel to Chiang Mai. Sukhothai was the first ancient capital of Siam and we went there to see the ruins of this. A new town has been built about 10km away from these ruins and this is where we found our guesthouse – (more…)
Eleflump escapades
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005On Saturday 22nd, we took a trip to the Mae Sa Elephant Training camp 20km north of Chiang Mai. It was a 45 minute schlep on the moped on quite busy roads and so not quite so pleasant, but the elephant camp was worth it.
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Fixed photos on Pied Piper post
Monday, October 31st, 2005Quite a few of the photos weren’t coming up on Bec’s post, which are now fixed for your perusing pleasure!
Agape Orphanage
Sunday, October 30th, 2005It definitely was a moving and humbling experience going to the orphanage. We were greeted by Jane, (an Aussie) when we arrived who showed us around. There are 63 children at Agape ranging in age from babies to 14 years old. Agape specifically takes in children with HIV and is a Christian orphanage set up around 9 years ago by a Canadian lady who recognised the need, since regular orphanages refused to work with HIV kids.
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Who says my posts are all about food…?!
Sunday, October 30th, 2005The 45 minute flight from Luang Prubang was very straightforward (apart from the terrible food!) and we arrived in Chiang Mai at about 3pm, which was very cool indeed as Bec and I had become accustomed to long bus journeys that took up entire days.
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Pied Piper of Bexhill
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005The journey from Vang Vieng (in Laos) to Luang Prabang (a large town north of Vang Vieng) was extremely winding, round green mountains that made it look a little like New Zealand. The road is called Route 13, and not for nothing. In recent years (although not in the last 2) vehicles have been attacked by armed gangs on this road and people (inc westerners) killed. Some say it’s politically motivated, so in theory tourist buses are safer, although others say its just ‘plain banditry’!
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