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Catching up with old friends
... a couple of temples en-route.
Many temples have decorated their entrances with banana and cocnut leaves and hanging lanterns and they look good. We stop in Wat Mahawan where they are mixing up some large woks of toffee, the same as we did in Khamnadie last month, so I go and help out with a stir. Luckily the rain didnt dampen spirits too much and as we get back to Kong Court the sky is filled with lanterns and ...
Chiangmai
... as you could find a Thai person to make it for you and avoid the Indian tailors (for no reason I could work out!). So eagerly I ventured into my first tailors and was met by, what I would describe as, a 'hate my job' person who basically threw a catalogue at me and asked no questions apart from 'how much you pay?' Disgruntled and downhearted we used the British favourite 'we'll have a think and come back in an hour' excuse and left never to return. It was on the walk from ...
Back to the roots
... bunte, puddingartige Rechtecke. Während die pinke Variante lecker, wenn auch undefinierbar schmeckte, stellten wir nach dem ersten Biss in die orangenen Stücke fest, dass diese eindeutig aus Durian, der Stinkefrucht bestanden. Wir verzichteten dementsprechend auf das restliche Dessert und hatten stattdessen großen Spaß, dieses anderen ahnungslosen Hostelgästen auf der Dachterrasse als wahnsinnig leckere Spezialität anzupreisen. Der feuchtfröhliche Abend endete mit einer ...
At least our taxi isn't an elephant - YET !!!
... everybody just keeps smiling.
Russ and I went to a Thai dinner show last night and they had seated us with a huge bush and tree between us and the stage, so we basically couldn't see a thing. Well for those of you who know Russ...........he was ready to go ballistic as his normal American "Russ" way would have been and refuse to pay for the dinner. He most likely would have been jailed or deported. So I, in my now ...
Elephant training.
... 2 day trek and they decided to come elephant training with us. Tours all booked we left Caesar and Caroline to go off exploring temples why Fulbrook and myself had to go find a market to by some suitable trekking shoes as being a plum that she can be left ours on a bus. Shoes brought for 240 each we went back to meet the others and go for dinner. We had dinner in a cool little vegetarian restaurant/ shack with a very hippy feel. The one woman working ...
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