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The King of Thailand is the world’s longest reigning Monarch at this time. This year he is celebrating 60 years on the throne. In honour of this event there was a royal barge procession on the Chao Praya river in Bangkok. We joined the masses to celebrate this event. Note that everyone is in yellow.…

Woops, I forgot to do last month’s “monthly” post… well I’ve got a new blog set up and I post there, mostly, now. http://blog.tcreative.ca So, if you want updates, you should probably go there. I’m just posting here because on June 24th, I’m going to be in a student Flamenco show in downtown Toronto. If…

I have been busy again.I go out and have experiences and think about what I will write and then I come back and forget about it.One day I went out early in the morning, the apartment has a white four seater Tuk Tuk which takes us down to the end of the soi as it…

Phyllis Bassett (nee Habberjam)Born 23 May 1936Died 23 May 20063 score years and ten ——–We Love you——–

May came and went in a bit of a blur, it was so busy. There were3 long weekends (1st, 5th and 12th, and then we had a week of holidays for my birthday and our wedding anniversary from the 20th-28th.We went to:Sukhothai on the w/e of the 5th – this being the oldest capital of…

I am on my own here at the moment. Dave returned to UK yesterday, he will go to his Auntie Phyl’s funeral on Monday. She died on her 70th birthday, 23rd May, form the cancer which she had been struggling with for two years. Apart from Uncle Mike, whom I have never met, Phyllis was…

Still talking about Cambodia. We did visit Angkor Wat on the second day and really took our time looking at the largest series of carved reliefs in the world. They mostly depict stories from Indian Epics and Angkor period wars and are beautifully carved. It is still possible to get up close and Asians usually…

The next temple we visited, after some lunch and a rest, was The Bayon famous for its faces which look down on you from all directions as you wander around. This again was built by Jayavarman VII and is another Buddhist temple. Around the walls on the lower leavel are bas-releif depictions of scenes from…

April and May have lots of public holidays here in Thailand:April 6, 13, 14 & 19May 1, 5 & 12.Absolutely Fabulous.In April we went back to the UK for 2 weeks, from 9 – 22, for the Easter period. We spent most of this 2 weeks with Trish’s parents, and one night over in Yorkshire…

Cambodia, that name alone for me, summons up images of death and destruction, skulls lying in fields of mud, brutality born of ignorance and the name of an unseen dictator that sounds like a child’s name for a pet parrot. These images are from the past, today Cambodia is trying to catch up with the…