Category: travel
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Our Trip 2012 (12) Rhian and Oscar
On one of our trips to try and find Billy’s bar we ended up in Molly Malone’s bar on Convent St. in the Silom area of Bangkok. While we were refreshing ourselves with a cool beer we chatted with some Brits. They were Rhian and Lance who, together with Rhian’s mum, were in Bangkok for a few weeks…
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Our Trip 2012 (11) Book Club
Our stay in Bangkok is almost at an end, we have taken two side trips, one to Vietnam and one to Myanmar (Meeanmar) the newish name for Burma, both will be explained in separate blogs. I still have a few adventures to relate. One day I went with a group of ladies in a book…
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Our Trip 2012 ( 10)
Back in Bangkok after our beach trip, we decided to visit the museum again, this time to actually look at some of the exhibits. Although I have spent a lot of time there over the years Dave was always working thus he never really had a good look around. We went around part of the south block…
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Our Trip 2012 (9)
We took off for the beach after we had been in Bangkok for 11days. Went to Koh Samet, we have been there a few times in the past. Took a taxi to Ban Phe, takes about 2 hours, where we got a ferry boat across to the island. Samet is a National Park but honestly you think…
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Our Trip 2012 (8)
A lot has happened since I last wrote here. We went to visit ‘Tip, she was staying at her sister’s house from Wed. to Sunday so that she could rest and relax before starting back at work on Monday. Tip came to us last Thursday to do some ironing, which she does much better than I, as…
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Our Trip 2012 (7)
Today was the Melbourne Cup Retrospective. As all you Race Meet aficionados know the Melbourne Cup takes place in Melbourne Australia every November and from what I gather is somewhat like Ascot with a bit of The Grand National thrown in. Anyway those Aussies manage to celebrate the event almost where ever they happen to…
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Our trip 2012 (6)
Monday we did laundry and caught up on Internet stuff etc. Then we ventured out to taste some wonderful Belgian chocolate. Their is a chocolate shop near the hotel, on Sukhumvit, which has good hot chocolate thus we usually get a cup, even in this hot weather it is still delicious and happily it is still…
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Our Trip 2012 (5)
Sunday 5th Feb. saw us in the swimming pool, it was very cool to get into, usually it is warm at this time of year but due to the rain and cloudy skies it has really cooled off. After a light breakfast we went to church, holy Redeemer on Ruamrudi. It was our local church when…
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Our Trip 2012 (4) ‘Tip
“Tip, our housekeeper while we lived in Bangkok, came to visit us Saturday morning. We have stayed in touch, helped by the fact that “Tip speaks and writes English, not perfectly but good enough for us to understand each other. “Tip and I also share the same year of birth, although I am 9 months older…
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Our Trip 2012 (3) this and that
Friday3rd Feb. At breakfast this morning we bumped into Johan and Britta. They lived in Centre Pointe while we did and Dave worked with Johan for about a year, again it seems to be a very small world. I met with an old friend, Claudia, we went to lunch and caught up on what had been…