Holiday in Malta, July 2009 February 18, 2009
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Tik and I have just booked our flights to Malta for a family reunion in July.
We’re going for one week and will be meeting all my family there.
Japan April 2009 January 29, 2009
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Tik and I just booked our flights to Japan.
We’re leaving Bangkok on April 4th, returning the morning of the 20th.
As we get a lot of Air miles with our credit cards the flights have cost us just 10,000 baht (about $290) in total. Both of us are really excited.
We’re flying in, and leaving from Osaka and plan to spend most of our time around Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
This week we’ll start using our CouchSurfing connections to hunt down some fun people we can spend some time with and I’ve been downloading documentaries and travel programs about Japan for the last week.
60 More Khao Yai Photos January 19, 2009
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Toon gave us the photos from her camera and we’ve uploaded a selection of them.
Family Holiday in Khao Yai January 2, 2009
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We brought our friend P’A along to Khao Yai for a 3 day holiday with Tik’s family (Por, Mae, N’Toon, N’Mai. We planned to have Chaokuy – the family’s 6 year old puddle but he didn’t come) – note from martin: Tik has a pet ‘poodle’ but her spelling was too cute to correct 
I love Khao Yai. It’s a HUGE national park, only a few hours by car from Bangkok and is one of my favorite places to visit. It’s full of mountains, lakes, waterfalls, fields and forests.
We stayed in a small resort. Not far from the national park. In fact, so small they only have three small houses. Both nights Tik’s parents slept in the rooms and Tik, Myself and P’A opted for a tent just outside. N’Toon also experienced a night in the tent as well.
Amongst the highlights of the holiday were trips to sunflower fields, visits to inside the national park and a large waterfall there and just spending time with Tik’s family and improving my Thai.
I’ll let Tik edit and update this post over the next week. We still have potentially hundreds of photos to add from Toon’s camera but the current photo collection can be found here.
One of our friend from March bride group tell us about a tiny resort call Banchomdaw . We got a small room and a big plus so cozy tents. I loved the way we woke up to lovely cold and windy air with sound of bird and chicken.
It’s the most relaxing holiday till Martin’s did his morning exercise down hill that morning though. (see more detail in the next post)
Weekend in Pattaya September 21, 2008
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Tik, my parents and I spent our second weekend together at the Garden Cliff Resort in Pattaya.
Sofitel Centara Grand Resort, Hua Hin September 15, 2008
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Mum and Dad came to Thailand for 16 days.
This is about their fourth trip over here and, sadly neither Tik nor I could afford to take much time from work but we were able to spend three weekends with them. In between weekends we left them in various locations so that they could explore and return to Bangkok in their own time.
For our first weekend we went to Hua Hin and stayed at the fantastic Sofitel Centara Grand Resort by the beach.
Holiday in Koh Mak May 1, 2008
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We decided to take a weekend away to Koh Mak and stayed at the CocoCape Resort.
Koh Mak is a few hours drive south of Bangkok, near to Koh Chang. I’m not sure how we decided on the resort but it was probably on the recommendation of one of Tik’s friends.
We’d actually arrived during the rainy season, although, nothing to me is more relaxing than being in a small wooden hut, nice and cosy, when the rain is pouring down.
We did have spells of great weather and used it to explore the island, walk down the beach and read by the hut.
For the first two nights we were in a wooden hut that, if the resort photos are to be believed should have been situated Maldives-style over the sea, however perhaps due to the season and low tide, was about 20 meters away. Our immediate environment was just mud flats.
Service at the CoCoCape Resort was a bit lackluster and we gave up waiting to be served for breakfast one morning when the waiter just refused to even acknowledge us.
The last night we upgraded to a suite which was a little more inland but afforded us the luxury of a large bed, a bath and an elevated view of the swimming pool and the sea.
Our last full day was especially memorable because we foolishly dated to kayak to a neighbouring island as the sky began to gray. We arrived on this beatiful island in the middle of a torrential tropical storm, knowing that whether it subsized or not we had to brave the rough waters to return to the resort within a few hours.
Tik did especially well in the Kayak seeing as she only learnt to swim a few years ago. We learnt the hard way that the heavier of the two kayakers should sit at the back of a Kayak. If you don’t do this then, as we discovered, the kayak is prone to capsize. Tik struggled initially to get back in but managed it eventually. The only casualty was our camera that got bathed in seawater but thankfully we did salvage all photos.
