It's October holidays for most International Schools in Bangkok, and Leslie has a week off too. So we continue our little round of "Discovery Thailand". Not really my first visit to Hua Hin, as the last time I came here was 5 years ago. We did not plan one thing, from 23rd to 25th October, Hua Hin is going to host the 15th Asean Summit, you know, the same one that had to be canceled in April in Pattaya due to heavy demonstrations. This time, the Thai government did not do things half-way...as they have deployed 36,000 security forces in the [View Full Entry]

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Dagen i dag starta med ei 3 timers lang busstur. Me sko te Hua Hin. Det va ein varme busstur, men naar me kom fram va det vel verdt det! Hotellet me bor paa her, Sofitel centara grand resort and villas, e et skikkelig luksushotell. Naa har me virkelig folelsen av aa ver paa bryllupsreise! Dagen har vel egentlig kun gaatt med te aa spisa, bada og slappa av. Der e 3 basseng her, og egen strandlinja te hotellet. Me provde aa bada i sjoen, men vannet der va for varmt for oss -va bedre aa kjola seg ned i badebassenget. [View Full Entry]

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We left Koh Tao early afternoon on a catamaran and arrived in Champon and after a three hour journey and a five hour bus journey we arrived in Hua Hin hot and tired. Luckily we managed to find a guesthouse that was still open and got ourselves a room with yet another hot shower air con and satellite TV for £9 - result!! We were up early and decided to have a sausage and egg mcmuffin (That’s the third Maccy D’s of the trip - Again - Farang!) and set about finding how on earth we get to Kanchanaburi without going [View Full Entry]

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Monday, June 4, 2007, began with a 7 AM arrival from Chiang Mai at the Sam Sen railroad station in Bangkok, about 15 minutes from the guest home that my sister, Carol, manages. We had a quick breakfast and showers, changed clothes, dropped off dirty clothes and packed up clean clothes, and by 9 AM we were off again with the guest home driver and van, with our first stop being the Rose Gardens. Back in the '60s the Rose Garden owner, who was a friend of my dad, started Thailand In Miniature (TIM) Land near Don Muang Airport. Anyway, he [View Full Entry]

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Hua Hin, Hua Hin, Hua Hin... Monella tapaa ERITTAIN overi mesta... enka nyt puhu mitenkaan positiivisesta overiydesta. Siinna missa muissa Suomalaisten suosimissa pakettimatkakohteissa paikallinen osaa sanoa "Terve, Terve", osataan Hua Hinissa kertoa myytavan tuotteen olevan "Anttila Hintaa", ravintoloiden ruokalistat ovat suomeksi ja raatalin nayteikkunassa iskulause kuuluu: "Et ole kaynyt Thaimaassa, jos et ole kaynyt talla raatalilla". Uskomaton paikka kertakaikkiaan. Saavuttiin mestoille lauantaina 7.3 yobussilla Krabi Townista. Loydettiin mukava kamppa meille 400 bahtilla yolta, Gh ol [View Full Entry]

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Hello again, Well we've been here in Hua Hin for 5 days now and we really like it. The weather is still scortching! we dont expect it to rain the whole time we are here, this is apparently the dry season. Anyway, since our last update we have been to a Thai Boxing night which was really good. it was more expensive to go if you are white, but we got ring-side seats. you could literally get sprayed with blood and sweat with every punch! some of the wee guys looked as though you could knock them over with a sneeze, [View Full Entry]

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Hello hello! well thats us into our second week now, its totally flying in! Since i last updated we've moved on from Bangkok and are now further south in a sleepy place called Hua Hin. there is a massive contrast between the two! Our last night in Bangkok we decided to go out to a nightclub in Bangkoks RCA. it was crazy, ther music was pretty good, and the place was mobbed, but there were half naked girls dancing everywhere haha! this seems to be the norm in thailand, coz the people who were there looked more like lava lounge punters [View Full Entry]

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I haven’t been doing one of these blog type things for a while for two reasons. 1) everything has been going well so I’ve not had amusing stories to tell and 2) enjoying myself so much I didn’t want to sit on the internet moaning. It’s so sad but I don’t want your sympathy, that would just make it worse. Well after my last entry, when I was in Ko Samui and it was pissing it down, I checked the weather and headed to Hua Hin. I knew it was very touristy and resort based but it seemed to be hogging [View Full Entry]

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Hua Hin - Paradise City - Clean and Tidy Hua Hin is 2.5 hours by mini-van south of Bangkok. Just catch the BTS Sky train to Victory Monument station and walk down the stairway towards the Century Cinemas and you will find the minivan depot where you can purchase a ticket for 200 baht. The King of Thailand has a Palace in Hua Hin which probably has something to do with why it is one of the cleanest and tidiest cities in the country. There are many foreigners living here with numerous golf clubs and residential estates. The highlight of the [View Full Entry]

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Polly: Well, after our yucky journey from Koh Tao aboard the Lomprayah ferry to Chumphon, we were whisked off in a taxi and dropped at the Merokot Hotel within five minutes of our arrival. For 400 Baht a night, the hotel was fantastic. It was clean, had a lift, spacious room, TV, fridge, air-conditioning and a bath. I haven't sat in a bath tub since staying with Nic & Jim in Australia, so was a bit over-excited. We didn't hang around long though as we both had empty bellies and I'd run out of shampoo & shower gel! As we walked [View Full Entry]

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