Country: Thailand 9 Posts

Bangkok's Grand Palace

  The highlight of our recent trip to Bangkok was seeing Nanna (my mother), who was on a three night stop over on her way to Tibet and China. A short visit but worth th...
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A kids morning out at the Chatuchak Markets

Ask most visitors to Thailand what they loved most about the country and they’ll probably say the beaches, the food or the people. For me it’s the markets. The best ...
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The end of the road trip

  After a less than successful start to our road trip through Thailand, we left Koh Samui with high expectations that we'd used up our 'road trip' bad luck and the fina...
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Bangkok with kids: Snow in Thailand

Last week the kids saw snow for the first time ... in Thailand! How? I took them to Dreamworld, a theme park on the northern outskirts of Bangkok. As well as a lot of c...
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Koh Samui: 100 swims, 100 beers, 0 waterfalls

Last week we spent six nights on Koh Samui, the second most popular island destination in Thailand. To be honest, we weren't all that impressed with Koh Samui. Being suc...
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Road trips: A word from Noah

Noah has asked me to make sure that everyone knows all the facts about our recent road trip in Thailand. He's still learning to read and write but talking he has definitely mastered so I'm writing this for him.

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Bad days come in threes ...

After the first two days of our road trip going awry before finally stumbling across a small piece of paradise on Hin Ngam Beach in Sichon, Thailand, we woke to a postca...
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Hat Yai to Sichon: Thailand road trip day 2

After a less than spectacular start to our Thailand road trip, we checked into the first hotel we found in Hat Yai, the Sakura Grand View Hotel, room unseen not expectin...
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Don't cut Colin off or he'll cut you ...

"Are we in Thailand yet?" pipes up Hayley for the twelfth time in the two hours since we left Penang. "Almost. We're 2km away. We'll be there in just a few minutes" "Y...
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