Coconut Tree Villa Phetchaburi

... I was taking their pictures. At one point I decided to ask them a question that you yourselves have asked children over the years. I asked the children, "What would you like to be when you grow up?" Now I was expecting the same answer that kids typically say, "Fireman, Astronaut, Ballerina", Doctor," and a few others. This time....the answers I would soon be hearing would place a heavy burden on my heart and cause me to reconsider just how blessed my childhood was growing up in ...

... adesso aveva detto di volersene andare al sud. Pucket ? Phang Ha ? Kuala Lumpur ? ancora non lo sappiamo e domani ci rimetteremo sulle sue tracce. ENGLISH: Laia and I arrived at Heathrow, terminal 4, and we waited for some news from our agents worldwide. Tom Yung Kung sent us the picture you can see above. There's the cafetera with a wat and a Thai flag as background. Enough. We took the flight heading ...

... a YES selection camp for the Thai students wanting to go abroad to America next year. It brought back a lot of memories of Houston, back when I went to the selection camp to come here. The 5 of us spoke a little about America, to sort of prepare them. A man we met from the American embassy was there and he actually spoke in Thai. We were all so jealous. There was a group of returnees that had gone to America the year before, who didn't even have Thai accents. There was the tallest Thai ...

... apparently trying to set up for some sort of show. Feeling somewhat in the way, we quickly made our exit. Part of our original plan had been to rent bicycles and cyle the 4km out to the cave temples (the main tourist draw in town), but having discovered that a one-day rental would set us back a steep 150B each, we decided to find alternative means for getting there. We managed to find the local "bus" stand with some help and were ...

... external concerns drain away instantly. Add a Singha or two and you've located the true pathway to my heart. As a parenthetical aside, in any crowd of international tourists there's never any trouble identifying the Americans. They're the ones who're dressed like absolute slobs. 'Sorry to dish on my fellow countrymen, but I'm in full agreement with radio dude Dennis Prager on this one. American culture, ca. 1990-2008 - and with ...

... pour nous parce-qu'aucune photo ne pourra rendre justice au panaroma. On croyait que nous etions pret de la maison mais 1h30 plus tard on arrivait finalement. Avec quelques ampoules en plus au pieds. Oufff enfin l'air climatise de notre chambre et une douche quel bonheur. Ce qui explique le micro message courriel d'hier. On vous a parler de notre course en taxi dans la ville avant hier. 100km heures dans Bangkok. En plus toute les ...

As my time at the Wildlife Rescue Centre ends, it hasn't escaped me just how out of date my blog has become, and how bad I have been at keeping in touch with people during the last six weeks. It's hard to explain the effect the Wildlife Rescue Centre has had on me, but I'll try now, and if I do a really bad job, at least you've still got about a million cute animal pictures to ooh and aah over. I've spent ...

... to Cha-am where there was a night market. The group I spent my time there with set ourselves a challenge to buy one person a really tacky gift for under 60 baht (that's just less than a pound). I bought Nat a truly hideous plastic pink diamante handbag, and Sid bought me a Hello Kitty puzzle and a cannabis-themed bracelet. Dinner at the market was nice until Ali found a maggot in her corn, at which point we all promptly lost our appetites. Thursday 14th ...

... here and helped us get into the boat quickly. We then went through the market. Tong bought various food for us to try. Nothing was too exotic, but it was all very good. We started with fried bananas, then we got some barbecued pork, then we got some Thai noodles at the floating restaurant (a little spicy even ...

... in his cage and chase after it. Kot is a rhesus macaque, also known as a rhesus monkey. Last night almost everyone from the center went out to Hua Hin--one last time for me, Liz, Joanna, Emma, and Faye. All 5 of us are leaving today. Dinner was fun, but the night dragged on at this one awful bar until 2 am. Georgie and I actually left and went to the ...