Author: Tina

Can’t believe it.69 /20 degrees when I went onto the balcony yesterday AM for breakfast.The pool was 75 on Sunday, with an air temperature of 74. No doubt we will be breaking the ice on the pool on Christmas day.So – let it snow, let it snow, let it snow . . We’ve had our…

Last w/e we were in Hanoi.Yet another interesting place.Once again, the thing that springs first to mind are all of the motorbikes and cyles / cyclos (tricycle taxi’s with a single (almost double – but not for us) seat in front). Hanoi press talks about traffic jams, but they really mean bike jams, as the…

We have just been away for a w/e retreat in Pattaya, from our Church here in BKK.There is a big organization in Pattaya, looking after orphans, and street kids, as well as others (see this web site http://www.fr-ray.org/en100100.php).Pattaya is sin city Thailand. Started by American GI’s during the Vietnam thing as the #1 place for…

Winter has arrived here in Thailand, with a vengeance. On Sunday last week it turned cold (in the 70’s – just), but continued to get colder every day. By Thursday it was 72/22 on the balcony when I took my breakfast. Yesterday A.M. I went for my w/e swim, and yelped when I dived in…

Yesterday was the Ploenchit Fair here in Bangkok. It is run by the British Club, with all of the various sub-groups of this Embassy spin-off having stalls and actvities etc., and also many other organizations in BKK. All the proceeds go to Charity. It is very like a British Village Fair, with lots of actvities,…

These are some of the girls from one of the clubs that Trish has joined (he he).

We were planning to go to Hanoi last w/e, but the evening before Trish remembered that we needed Visas (so much for me the frequent flyer eh?)Anyway, in the end we went to Krabi instead – a beach resort on the Andaman coast.Had a fabulous weekend, though as you can see from the pic, it…

It seems like we’re either all getting sloppy, or we are so busy we can’t get to the Blog. I know that for me it’s the latter; things have just been crazy here.Anyway, here’s a quick update.Since my last update, at the beginning of September we have:Spent a w/e in the Sofitel Hotel on the…

It seems I haven’t blogged since forever, so it’s time to catch up.August was still the rainy season here so it has been quite wet. A number of areas of the country have been flooded; this after the drought that was so bad that many other areas still have low water, despite the rains. Here…

Trish has now been back from Canada for 2 weeks, and me for about 6. It seems like I never went away.Last w/e was Budhist Lent start (Farang Terminology). A long w/e thankfully and a fairly quiet one for us as it was Tricia’s first w/e back, so we stayed in town here.Budhist lent lasts…